AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

Re:AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest... by demirbey05 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @09:50AM (#44972783)

Yesterday, I was asked to scrape data from a website. My friend used ChatGPT to scrape data but didn't succeded even spent 3h+. I looked website code and understand with my web knowledge and do some research with LLM. Then I described how to scrape data to LLM it took 30 minutes overall. The LLM cant create best way but you can create with using LLM. Everything is same, at the end of the day you need someone who can really think.

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Re:AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest... by isatty on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:43AM (#44974192)

Or you could’ve used xpath and bs4 and have been done in an hour or two and have more understandable code.

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Re:AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest... by demirbey05 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @12:25PM (#44974665)

it is not that easy, there is lazy loading in the page that is triggered by scroll of specific sections. You need to find clever way, no way to scrape with bs4, so tough with even selenium.

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Re:AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest... by jvm___ on Thursday August 21, 2025 @10:12AM (#44973050)

LLM's can do anything, but the decision tree for what you can do in life is almost infinite. LLM's still need a coherent designer to make progress towards a goal.

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Re:AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest... by demirbey05 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @12:26PM (#44974682)

LLMs can do small things well, but you must use small parts to form big picture.

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Re:AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest... by 1718627440 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @10:48AM (#44973497)

wget -m ?

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