Inside the Vibe Coding Revolution: Why Amazon’s Tech Leads Are Embracing AI-Generated Code Every Day—and What It Means for Software Engineering
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 02/18/2026 - 14:50When Anni Chen, a technical lead at Amazon, first encountered the concept of “vibe coding,” she did what many seasoned engineers would do: she resisted. The idea of letting artificial intelligence generate large swaths of production code felt antithetical to the meticulous, hands-on craft she had spent years perfecting. But as AI coding tools matured and their output improved, Chen found herself not just tolerating the practice—she was doing it daily.