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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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