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Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work
(www.theguardian.com)
Man, sunk cost fallacy is really running rampant in silicon valley.
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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It's not sunk cost fallacy at all. They see this as well worth the investment. They're making people put time into training their AI models. People are basically training the clueless intern who will take their job very soon. AI is done with training on all material that exists online. Now you have to force people to engage with it to give it more training.
It’s not at risk of taking anyone’s job anytime soon. They have yet to even come close to LLMs being able to “know” what a right answer is. All they’re doing now is generating what their models predict you want to see. That’s why they produce slop that breaks down if you look closely.
Always is.
They think its worth the gamble because the ultimate payoff is they won't need to pay humans
I think they know they’re not going to have infinite humans at their disposal they have now, sometime soon.
They built their bunkers, now they need the subservient labor class they enjoyed.. in the form of AI.
It may be slower, but they think it is cheaper, thereby making it more profitable. These idiots only see short term profit and don't care about the long term health of the company or the economy.
I hope they go all in and then implode when the ai bubble pops.
Terminator 2 warned us that the future was humanity enslaved to robots.
What they didn't tell us was how stupid the whole thing started.
Yeah, my company's like that too. I'm like, why are we spending tokens when we know what the fix is and the AI isn't listening?
I think they believe that we're gaining the skills to navigate the AI?
I get it because it can accelerate a lot of development in certain ways, but like, we're also losing the mental map of the codebase with this. I think it'd matter less for projects but for products ... it's weird to be like, "I never write code any more!" and be proud of it ... although to be fair, I haven't written much code after I became a lead.
It’s their wet dream to be able to get rid of all their workers.
AI is expensive, slow and ineffective, but by Bezos bald head we'll use it!
Bezos is right Amazon has to adopt AI or die trying.
Please let it be the latter.