Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by MrCharismatist on Friday May 15, 2026 @12:33PM (#48150647)

Look, I feel for junior admins, I was one 35 years ago and the only reason I'm where I am today was because I had to learn the hard way, repeatedly and often.

I use the shit out of opencode to do things as a force multiplier, not as a way to keep me from knowing what its doing.

The point at which we're optimizing for "we don't need to know that anymore" is the point at which everything blows up, because agentic work is not fully deterministic, models hallucinate even simple things.

Blindly relying on your agent weapon of choice to just do the right thing because you didn't take the time to understand how the lego fits together is an actual problem.

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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by thereisnospork on Friday May 15, 2026 @01:20PM (#48151286)

Replace agent with 'direct report' and you've just described middle management. For better or worse, companies have always run on non deterministic tasks doled out by persons who barely understand the work.

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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by paulhebert on Friday May 15, 2026 @02:32PM (#48152112)

Honestly human employees feel closer to deterministic than LLMs.

I have a pretty good sense of the quality of work my coworkers output, where they tend to struggle, where they're talented, what level of review is required, what I should double check, etc.

By contrast LLMs are more like picking a contractor out of a hat. Even with good guardrails the quality and types of issues vary wildly prompt to prompt.

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