The story about recovering the account rings very close to me. At least they had coworkers cheering for him, I feel teams are shrinking so much that we'll end up with just the LLM of choice to pat our back with "good work" and "you're absolutely right"
Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
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#22I thought Amazon only did memos, not slide decks.
Has that changed, or is it the non-AWS part of Amazon?
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#23Our company also requires everyone to use more AI-related tools, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. But the quality of work produced using these tools really depends on the individual's ability. Some people don't put in much effort, and the results they produce are really sloppy, which bothers me a lot.
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#24The story about recovering the account rings very close to me. At least they had coworkers cheering for him, I feel teams are shrinking so much that we'll end up with just the LLM of choice to pat our back with "good work" and "you're absolutely right"
Co-workers cheered while managers were sharpening their axes. One doesn’t do such “heroics” without approval, making the system look incompetent and broken and then apologizing for it without being decapitated in the public square for everyone to learn the implicit lesson. Anyone cheering for him publicly should watch their back, too.
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#25Being fired for calling out Corruption. That's how I read this.
Absolutely. With his name in the public and apologizing to the customer for sheer internal incompetence. Then also cheered on internally.
I bet as the managers publicly nodded in praise for his heroic act, their hands were already typing his name to be sent to HR for “get this guy out of here on any excuse you can” note. (In reality it would be a nonverbal hint of sorts. Nothing to leave any trace discoverable by lawsuit)
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#26Not that I disagree with the points in the article, but 2022 is hardly the high point of Amazon. That ship sailed decades ago.
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#28I was enjoying the article and then he makes some of the most bizarre claims about what cloud did and how we had to provision servers
If any of you young'uns read this, that is not how we had to do provisioning before cloud.
VMs already existed before AWS came out. You could already provision a new server usually in minutes and rent it month to month.
In fact, all the existing VM server companies had to start calling themselves cloud companies because pointy haired bosses couldn't understand what cloud really was.
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#29“I have to say being fired from AWS is actually a relief. There have been a lot of changes to the company since I joined in 2022, and the company I wanted to work for is no longer the same company.”
Many storied companies can be described this way. It’s a shame. Have any companies hit such scale and kept the ethos and magic of before? Is it inevitable for companies to enshitify themselves in the pursuit of their shareholder’s goals?
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#30> Long story short, I was able to get his resources restored. All I did was manage to poke the right bear and the support team did the rest of the work (and they were amazing).
No they utterly failed and needed a special non fungible employee to get them to do their job.