AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

Re:AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the... by RevEng on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @12:37PM (#46302738)

While I have no particular love for AI generated code, I think this has nothing to do with AI. Software has been unreliable for over a decade. Companies have been rushing out half baked products and performing continual patches for many years. And it's our fault because we have just come to accept it.

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Re:AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the... by rented_mule on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @12:51PM (#46302939)

> Software has been unreliable for over a decade

The "over" deserves a lot of emphasis. To this day, I save my code at least once per line that I type because of the daily (sometimes hourly) full machine crashes I experienced in the 80s and 90s.

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Re:AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the... by daedrdev on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @01:17PM (#46303294)

Same, I think I should just turn on autosave at this point to save my fingers

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Re:AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the... by rightbyte on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:21AM (#46312316)

I have this fear autosave might corrupt the file by trying to save while the program has hung or whatever.

I don't remember which app made me think that. Maybe some old version of Matlab cleared unsaved files when hung and with autosave enabled.

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