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 dkarl on Friday May 15, 2026 @02:38PM (#48152183)

Unfortunately, a convincing demonstration to convince a skeptical colleague would require measuring developer productivity.

Among skeptics, I've only seen people won over by using it themselves, because when they use AI for their own work, they invest the time to review the code, understand it, and assess its quality by their own standards. That's how people learn to trust AI coding assistance.

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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by recursive on Friday May 15, 2026 @02:57PM (#48152450)

Perhaps amusingly, I think I actually trusted it more before I started using it. Specifically because of my assessment of its quality, including things like factual correctness.

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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by parineum on Saturday May 16, 2026 @12:57AM (#48156962)

There's only really one measure, ultimately, and that's profits. Are these heavy AI companies raking in 10x profits with their 10x'd developers?

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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by ryandrake on Saturday May 16, 2026 @11:18AM (#48160960)

THIS is exactly what I want to see. Show me 10 randomly selected “All in on AI” companies that are running circles around a control group of 10 randomly selected similar but traditional software development companies. Show the AI-using companies being measurably more profitable.

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