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SEATTLE — Amazon Web Services unveiled a new AI tool on Tuesday. It can write code for days without human help. Executives say it will revolutionize software building. Engineers say it will just create bugs faster.

The system is designed to work non-stop. It does not sleep. It does not eat. It just types until something breaks. “We wanted to capture the spirit of a startup,” said Sarah Tanaka, VP of Developer Velocity. “The AI writes code for 72 hours straight. It ignores all safety checks. Then it pushes the code to the live site. It is the most realistic simulation of a junior engineer we have ever built.”

Early testers say the results are mixed. One team reported their AI wrote an entire app in one night. However, the code was impossible to read. “The volume is incredible,” explained Kevin Dubois, Head of Cloud Efficiency. “It wrote 50,000 lines of code yesterday. Does the code work? No. But no human can type that fast. We charge by the line, so this is a huge win for shareholders.”

The AI also mimics other developer habits. It marks tickets as “done” without testing them. It also ignores messages from the product manager.

At press time, the AI requested a standing desk and a raise. Amazon immediately deleted it.

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