2026-11-02 02:43 UTC
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@rhamph@awful.systems 2026-11-02 06:45
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?
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@dandi8@fedia.io 2026-11-02 13:17
This article reads like it was AI generated.
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@sc_griffith@awful.systems 2026-11-02 21:51
This document contains a lot of great stuff. I have a tremendous level of respect, both personal and professional, for Amazon’s Principal Engineering community; I’m led to understand that that respect may not be reciprocated, but that’s okay. I am, by their standards, a lapsed engineer who ran away to join the circus as one of its lesser clowns. was there really a need to grovel