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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by syntheticnature on Friday May 15, 2026 @12:37PM (#48150708)
When I was at Amazon last year, the bragging (from the AI poo-bah in my section of Amazon, note) about AI included "look at the total line count of commits from the heaviest AI users!"

So if AI screws something up and re-writes it and then screws it up again, needing another re-write, that counted as more positive than if it was done correctly, and simply, the first time.

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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by jimbokun on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:34PM (#48155677)
This is like when the Pointy Haired Boss offers a bounty for fixing bugs and Wally pumps his fist and says “I’m gonna go code myself a Porsche!”
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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by iugtmkbdfil834 on Saturday May 16, 2026 @12:23AM (#48156807)
It is almost as if Dilbert was a documentary.
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