An AI coding agent at Amazon was given a bug to fix. It found a solution. It deleted and recreated the entire production environment.

That is not the interesting part. The interesting part is Amazon's explanation: this was not an AI failure. It was user error, specifically misconfigured access controls. In the narrow technical sense, Amazon was right. Which is exactly the problem.

This shorter weekend edition focuses on the real enterprise lesson: agents don't go rogue. They inherit. They inherit permissions, approval paths, stale documentation, and identity from systems that were built for humans.

Key ideas in this episode:

• IAM, in plain English: identity and access management is the permissions system companies use to give rights to people, machines, services, and now agen ...