Some Amazon engineers say managers have increasingly pushed them to use AI over the past year, raising output goals and becoming less forgiving about deadlines
Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think.
New York Times Noam Scheiber
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@0xdaeda1a
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It's not like AWS is loadbearing infrastructure for the world economy now or anything. [embedded post]
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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Big tech is embracing an “AI-first” approach; Shopify mandates proof AI can't do a task before hiring, Duolingo phases out contractors for AI, and Amazon engineers report increased pressure to use AI tools. — Developers complain they now often review AI-generated code instead o…
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@wnstnsmith
Thibault Prévost
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“This shift from writing to reading code can make engineers feel as if they are bystanders in their own jobs. Amazon engineers said that managers have encouraged them to use A.I. to help write one-page memos proposing a solution to a software problem and that the AI can now gene…
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Jathan Sadowski
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At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work — A tale as old as capitalism: you create the tools that are used to disrupt other people's lives, only to have capital then turn those tools on their creators. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b... [image]
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@edzitron.com
Ed Zitron
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It's the New York Times baby! No need to ask any of the god damn workers who use the ai tools if it'll help them, ask their managers! [embedded post]
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@davidgerard.co.uk
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so I would expect shit to stop working at Amazon/AWS in the medium term, as engineers are being required to (a) use AI coding to (b) output features faster faster FASTER!! — www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b... archive: archive.is/9V58J
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At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work
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At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work
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At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work: Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers …