426 services, 0 humans: AWS's emulator is written by agents

AWS launched a local emulator of its own cloud today, covering 426 services — and says autonomous agents wrote every line of the code, with no human reviewing it. I downloaded the release's own fidelity file: 56.5% of its 42,937 test units pass.

What launched

AWS Emulator is a local program that serves the AWS APIs on your machine, announced today (November 11) in a guest post on All Things Distributed by Swami Sivasubramanian. The source is public on GitHub at aws/aws-emulator , released under CC0 — effectively public domain. It is free, runs offline, and needs no AWS account. Point the AWS CLI or an SDK at it and your code runs against emulated resources instead of real ones.

The numbers AWS puts on it: more than 400 API models covering more than 200 services, per the launch summary — InfoWorld reports 426 services supported.…