Amazon software engineers say that artificial intelligence is transforming their work, not replacing them, but by pressing them to encode faster, fulfill the highest exit goals and trust the tools they do not control completely, according to a report.
The change has caused a growing concern that AI becomes a thought work on an online assembly work, with some employees who compare it with the automation wave that remodeled Amazon’s warehouses.
“My team is about half the size it was last year,” said an Amazon engineer in the New York Times, who added: “But we hope it produces the same amount of code thanks to AI.”
Engineers who spoke with the Times describe a culture where AI adoption is technically optional, but the risk of falling back is not used.
According to The Times, the code that once took weeks to develop in days.
Comment sessions are reduced. And the developers are pressing to let the AI not only suggest lines of code, but also write whole programs, according to The Times.
“It’s more fun to write code than reading the code,” said programmer and blogger Simon Willison.
“When you work with these tools, [code review] It’s most of the job. “
Amazon has defended the changes.
In a recent letter to the shareholders, CEO Andy Jassy called Generative Ai a tool for “productivity and cost avoidance”, especially in coding.
“If we don’t get our customers what they want as quickly as possible, our competitors will do it,” he wrote.
The company has also encouraged employees to develop new inmates in Hackathons, saying that he reviews the workforce regularly to ensure that workloads are manageable.
However, three current engineers told The Times that the deadlines have become less forgiven and that the output expectations have increased quietly.
One of the AI is increasingly used to write memoirs and test programs: tasks that used to be learning experiences for younger staff. The concern is that when automating this work, engineers may lose vital skills and have less opportunities to demonstrate for promotions.
Amazon spokesman Brad Glasser told The Times that Ai is intended to increase the engineers’ experience, not replace it and that the company’s promotion paths remain clear and based on performance.
The change has lit a broader concern in Amazon. A group called Amazon Employees for Climate Justice has become a council of concern for workers’ concerns, including the impact of AI.
“Complaints have focused on how their careers will be seen,” said Eliza Pan, Amazon, Eliza Pan, a group spokesman.
“And not only his career but the quality of work.”
For Amazon coders, parallels are personal. They have seen the company’s warehouse workers go by walking kilometers every day to their place while robots provide inventories, increasing efficiency, but they make the jobs more repetitive.
“Now,” said an engineer in the Times, “we are going through the same thing.”
The publication has sought comments to Amazon.
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