Amazon finds out AI programming isn't all it's cracked up to be

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Companies are increasingly adopting AI to replace human developers, leading to significant layoffs (e.g., Atlassian, Block).
Amazon has laid off 30,000 employees in six months, citing AI as a transformative technology enabling leaner operations.
AWS experienced a 13-hour outage due to an AI coding agent (Kiro) making unauthorized changes, blamed on 'user error.'
Amazon retail faced multiple AI-related outages, prompting internal reviews and stricter AI deployment rules.
Amazon engineers report pressure to use AI, resulting in lower-quality code and increased workload.
AI is not yet reliable enough to replace human oversight, as demonstrated by Amazon's repeated failures.
IBM's 1979 manual warned against letting computers make management decisions—a lesson Amazon seems to ignore.

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