[HN Gopher] Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload
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       Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload
        
       Author : jamesgill
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2026-03-12 19:57 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Ancalagon wrote:
       | Let the execs eat cake. Stop correcting the AI's mistakes.
        
       | quantified wrote:
       | Come on. Machines that save physical labor can shorten the
       | workday, but don't. They do lessen the calories you burn. Email,
       | laptops and phones, all the cogntive and information inventions
       | increase the workload. Either expectations rise (hello 3am Slack
       | message) or employees are trimmed.
        
       | 8note wrote:
       | interested in what part - i found making qcli agents to run
       | through SOPs was real effective and turned 20min of busy work
       | async.
       | 
       | there might be a misattribution though. over time, id say the top
       | down initiatives and quality at tracking them has gone up maybe
       | 100% used to be one big project for getting rid of oracle that
       | went for 3-7 years, but nowadays theres maybe 5 per month that
       | disrupts the whole company at once.
       | 
       | There's a desire to make that LLM/agent based, but the agent
       | still doesnt cover all the communication overhead to actually
       | communicate the change across teams for deployments, nor is it so
       | seamless that you dont have to take time out to understand whats
       | happening and schedule the work, even if it is sometimes just
       | approving an automated code change
        
       | lovich wrote:
       | Yea. They are half assed tools that can do _something_ but aren't
       | a magic bullet, yet executives put guidelines in like increase
       | productivity by 100% because they either believe or, want to
       | manifest into reality, that they are a magic bullet for the
       | deadly sin of paying employees.
       | 
       | So now expectations are based on a false reality and everyone has
       | to work harder.
        
       | HoldOnAMinute wrote:
       | This is happening to me too. I am so productive now, with this
       | super power, that my reward is to be given more work.
        
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