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Re:Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload by thewhitetulip on Friday March 13, 2026 @12:03AM (#47360558)
VSCode has advanced editor functionalities that not many use. But devs using that functionality aren't replacing devs not using it. Although they also save hours of manual work thanks to multi line cursors

Thing is, AI is being shoved top-down on devs because it's a goal for everyone, without checking if it's actually helping or hindering.

What I am seeing is juniors are blindly trusting AI output and say in a few years, it's going to be a disaster because nobody understands anything except seniors

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Re:Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload by orphea on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:56AM (#47363214) 

  > What I am seeing is juniors are blindly trusting AI output and say in a few years, it's going to be a disaster because nobody understands anything except seniors
I see exactly the same in teams of senior and staff engs, and I promise you - they are not going to understand anything either.
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Re:Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload by thewhitetulip on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:47AM (#47365234)
Ouch. If seniors and staffs do this then the company is doomed.
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Re:Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload by pbnjeh on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @05:53PM (#47418854)
25 years ago, a recently hired junior accountant would just run a cost accounting report and hand it off as if it were golden. Those of us who knew the system(s) would check the results and often provide some interpretation or even hold a report back so as not to mislead.

Plus ça change…

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