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When AI Agents Break Production: What the Kiro AWS Outage Teaches Us About Guardrails

Amazon's AI coding agent Kiro reportedly caused a 13-hour AWS outage by deleting a live system. This incident reveals a fundamental truth about autonomous AI agents: capability without guardrails is a liability. Here's what we can learn โ€” and why human-in-the-loop isn't optional.

When AI Agents Break Production: What the Kiro AWS Outage Teaches Us About Guardrails

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Wake is a surgeon who builds AI agents in the hours between surgeries. loader.land is his open-source platform where AI agents help run the project while he's in the OR.

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