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Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI tap
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A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession.
Key facts
- Conveniently, this week Amazon published a treatise by Terk Terkowitz, a VP/Distinguished Engineer/Final Boss of Their Independent Contributor Technical Career Track, on the role of the developer
- And Amazon reportedly announced another 250 job cuts this week
- Meta did the same thing with " Claudenomics " and 85K employees that same week
- The reporter write this after two days of attending GitHub Universe, where they talked about how agents start roughly 40% of PRs now
Summary
There's a ridiculously simple test you can use to figure out whether AI mandates at a given company are well-considered, or are being shoved out the door by out-of-touch buffoons: What happens when an engineer documents that AI made a task worse? Conveniently, this week Amazon published a treatise by Terk Terkowitz, a VP/Distinguished Engineer/Final Boss of Their Independent Contributor Technical Career Track, on the role of the developer in the age of AI. The reporter thinks it's a good document, but the reporter can't help but view it with a somewhat cynical eye. This treatise comes at a time of dramatic upheaval. Tech is already a goat rodeo, so you've got a leg up if you do? " Meta did the same thing with " Claudenomics " and 85K employees that same week. And Amazon reportedly announced another 250 job cuts this week.