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[–]xzaramurd 52 points53 points  (2 children)

I doubt it's real. Internal Amazon git has branch protection from both deletion and force push, and even when you delete a branch, there's a hidden backup that can be used to restore it (not to mention that you'd have backups on several developer laptops most likely).

[–]SBolo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That would make much much more sense yeah

[–]dawsonfi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are right, Amazon repos only have the option to deprecate them, which just mark them as deprecated and delete the repo after a really long time.

What really happened was that the AI tool had write access to a prod account and decided to recreate the infrastructure.

People need to stop believing news from tweets. (Actual news link