Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use (www.theregister.com)

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[-] rhamph@awful.systems 29 points 1 day ago

There's a ridiculously simple test you can use to figure out whether AI mandates at a given company are well-considered, or are being shoved out the door by out-of-touch buffoons: What happens when an engineer documents that AI made a task worse? Are they taken seriously, or are they marginalized and eventually managed out?

Even easier test: is it an AI mandate?

[-] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 4 points 1 day ago

If AI makes a task easier i find that engineers will use it. Engineers are lazy. We want to automate stuff so ee dont have to do it.

[-] schnoopy@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

Engineers are a formally certified thing, you don't get to call yourself an engineer because you make digital machines.

One of the certification requirements is ethical standards and education.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

you're the kind of programmer your colleagues hate having to deal with

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