Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years
(www.theguardian.com)
from SleafordMod@feddit.uk to technology@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 14:48
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from SleafordMod@feddit.uk to technology@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 14:48
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As we roll out more generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done
we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce
Are we done for?
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Nice of him to give them the heads up, so they can all go find new jobs now. Sure would be poetic if they all just moved elsewhere and left Amazon understaffed.
Oh, gimme a break.
This jerk is telling his workers that all their jobs are in jeopardy all the time, year after year. No news here. It’s just his thing.
Probably he’s trying to keep up the fear - booo hooooo…
Seriously, there’s a reason there’s been horror stories of people crying at their desks at Amazon since the early 2000’s. Because they’ve always treated everyone like they’re completely expendable at all times. Horrific work culture.
Exactly this. And their jobs might actually be in jeopardy if their colleagues start working twice as hard. Product will reflect this though
Got to keep them scared.
Something I think should be on the same level as “if buying isn’t owning piracy isn’t theft” is something like “if an ai/robot can take my job why should I have to work”
Because landlords would like to keep their wealth extraction going.
In theory we could get solar panels and batteries for power, some cheap robots for growing food, but all land is owned.
On how about “the robot can take my job I only want the money”
Well that’s just good, quality managing right there.
Can’t wait for all the random deals on things when the AI randomly cuts prices of things or ships me pallets of things.
Edit: Things!
What jobs?
Ok.
Corporate goons always use fear as a tool. This coupled with fucking up the entire tech industry via layoffs, and suddenly engineer leverage basically flies out the window entirely. You can’t replace senior devs with AI. You can try and I will enjoy watching you fail.
You can’t even replace junior devs with AI. This is a completely false narrative intended to demoralize workers into not exercising their market power.
Yeah, for clarity, I don’t think it can replace any dev. I mentioned senior because there’s a ton of soft skill and historical context involved that senior devs hold that is absolutely not replaceable. I’ve found AI to be helpful for grunt work and nothing else. It constantly chokes, even when being fed the entire codebase for reference.
No. Amazon has been trying to cut head count for years now. They were hoping RTO5 would do the trick but because every company is trying to do the same thing people didn’t have a ship to jump to.
“Our AI is so great!” Is a way to mask that their finances aren’t good and they dramatically made the wrong bet in 2021 hiring so much.
Honestly most of the time at Amazon you’re doing more meetings and red tape than you are coding so I don’t expect AI to magically fix shit for them.
Their shopping experience is so much worse than only 3 years ago. Whatever they are doing, they are doing it wrong.
Amazon is a technology company now. For a long time the storefront and logistics have been a tech demo for Amazon Web Services.
For instance: FreeRTOS
Even Bezos has acknowledged that companies really only last 30 years. They inevitably decline. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington,[3] on July 5, 1994
Can we quit posting this baseless fear mongering? It is simply powerful people trying to demoralize workers and acting like it is legitimate news is playing into their hands.
No shit, right? Seems obvious. Applies to many more than just Amazon employees.
Automation is a great thing, IF Universal Basic Income is also implemented.
“Universal basic income” has become the tech bro’s thought-terminating cliché to avoid criticism. When you hear one of them say it, they might as well be saying “magic”. They’re 100% invested in the problem, but you’ll notice they’re 0% invested in that supposed solution…
We need to be taxing the companies for every job they replace with ai and use that to pay for it.
We are fucked, The rich are literally creating armies of robots.
The people who are predicting that AI will replace X% of jobs are usually not qualified to make that determination. They don’t do those jobs, and they don’t have any idea what is involved in those peoples jobs. They are way too high up the corporate ladder to have actually been doing any real work in the last 10 years. They were sold some AI product which promises to lay off thousands of workers, and they seem to have believed it implicitly.
What’s sickening to me is how enthusiastic they seem to be about ruining their employees lives
Ironically, save for specific positions that require facetime and political shrewdness, it is these same prognosticators whose roles can most readily be fulfilled by Ai
go on, do it. do it so we get rid of this addiction
Exactly what a good leader would tell their team to motivate them. /s
Did someone tell Amazon that some of the staff they will let go will have access to AI as well and will turn around and start competing with them? Someone should as AI is not just for corporations. In fact it is and may continue to benefit individuals and small teams more.
Time for the AI teams to suddenly have tech issues.
“Sorry, the whole codebase is just gone! We have no idea what happened!”
“Must have been the S3 storage”
Ah yes those famous “Agents”. They will of course write themselves, adapt themselves to changing environment and run on their own without any supervision.