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AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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Re: AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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Post by lacewing »

haburka wrote: post #6

I think this kind of overly dramatic writing makes me struggle to respect the arguments in the piece. Like the blog writer has this style like they’re documenting the collapse of humanity or something when really it’s just a massive cloud company taking some direction that may be suboptimal. I understand this tone can be helpful to drive effective change but I think it should be reserved for situations where people a…

This is an AI-written story. It exists to get upvoted and reshared, so overly-dramatic language is the point.

Re: AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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Post by jalev »

Existing HN discussion from the ex-AWS engineer's side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254475

AI writing aside, I still think the author has a point: the customer-centric AWS/Amazon of yesterday is not really there any more, or at least appears in a form that isn't recognisable or useful to every day users.

Re: AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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Post by josefritzishere »

If Jeff Bezos was a less terrible person AWS might be a better product and Amazon a better place to work. In this story, AI is front and center. It plays the protagonist, and while we all know AI is terrible, I think this distracts somewhat from the poisonous Amazon corporate culture that created the situation where AI became that villain.

Re: AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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Post by ritzaco »

It's annoying when people post slop with no substance, but it's somehow worse when there's actual substance _hidden_ by the slop.

I'd probably much rather have read the prompt for this article than whatever this is.

Anyway, I use my `buzzoff.wtf` slop site for this kind of thing. Originally built so I could figure out what startups actually did behind all their buzzword landing pages, but now also to get a summary of articles like this to decide if it's worth reading or not

https://buzzoff.wtf/https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-fired-th...

Re: AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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Post by dilap »

haburka wrote: post #6

I think this kind of overly dramatic writing makes me struggle to respect the arguments in the piece. Like the blog writer has this style like they’re documenting the collapse of humanity or something when really it’s just a massive cloud company taking some direction that may be suboptimal. I understand this tone can be helpful to drive effective change but I think it should be reserved for situations where people a…

It's just Claudeslop. It's everywhere. An epidemic. If you're familiar it stands out instantly. (Would you let someone else talk for you? In real life? Like open up your mouth and let a TTS system spit out the sounds and pick the words? No? Then you shouldn't do the same thing with writing!)

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Post by breakpointalpha »

haburka wrote: post #6

I think this kind of overly dramatic writing makes me struggle to respect the arguments in the piece. Like the blog writer has this style like they’re documenting the collapse of humanity or something when really it’s just a massive cloud company taking some direction that may be suboptimal. I understand this tone can be helpful to drive effective change but I think it should be reserved for situations where people a…

I quit reading after the first paragraph when I saw this pattern:

"Not X, not y, not z, A!"

The overly emotional paragraph headlines were also off putting.

Re: AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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Post by squeedles »

Every corporation of sufficient size turns into a blind elephant, walking in one direction and trampling everything in its path. This is just the nature of bureaucracy, but there has always been someone somewhere within the organization that could tug on the elephants ear or whack it with a stick in the right place, to make it avoid an obstacle now and then.

The trick was always finding the person, but now the elephant has no handlers because all of the people are gradually being removed. It's like all the tech bros watched "The Matrix" thirty years ago and said "What a great business model!"

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Post by jaapz »

neutronicus wrote: post #49
haburka wrote: post #6

I think this kind of overly dramatic writing makes me struggle to respect the arguments in the piece. Like the blog writer has this style like they’re documenting the collapse of humanity or something when really it’s just a massive cloud company taking some direction that may be suboptimal. I understand this tone can be helpful to drive effective change but I think it should be reserved for situations where people a…

> Some switched to farming. Others opened coffee shops. One bakes bread now. That’s the level of abyss we’re talking about. These are people who know they can’t do anything online anymore. Not because they lack the skills. Because their brains were so filled and indoctrinated with complexity that they found decorating a cookie more fulfilling than maintaining 87 files of Kubernetes manifests plus CloudFormation templ…

The wording also suggests decorating a cookie can't be as fulfilling as working on a complex software project.

This "author" certainly never baked his own bread or grew his own vegetables. Let alone becoming a professional, which is hard work, probably more hard work than sitting at a desk asking claude to change this or that react component.

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