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AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
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#72> that’s not a career pivot. That’s a trauma response. > he wasn’t being philosophical. He was describing the exact contradiction that made his own job impossible. Is this written by AI? It has the typical "That's not X. That's Y." phrasing. A bit ironic given the content.
I've seen some other posts on this site and yeah it's probably AI, and low-quality writing regardless.
Excellent candidate for throwing into AI and asking for a summary; if you bother reading it at all.
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#73Amazon has this thing of stack ranking and firing the lowest performing employees - its just a pattern that works for them as it creates urgency with all the employees who remain. This is probably all there is to it.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> "Not X, not y, not z, A!" You know, humans do that sometimes as well. Not GenAI's, not Agents, not automated systems, but actual humans!
Sometimes! But when the cost of generating pages upon pages of bombastic text is near-zero, I have to apply quick heuristics to decide which text by people I don't personally know is worth my time to read in detail, and this article doesn't pass.
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#76I 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…
Claude's style is now overuse of sentence fragments, which this "article" has in spades. Fragments are the new emdash or "delve".
And here's the thing
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#77You know, sometimes corporate America forgets its own principles. You know, Mr. CEO, how you don't really much care why the system went down, you just want it fixed ASAP, no excuses, just get it done? You know what? We customers are the same way. We don't care why something broke. All we see is that it broke. We are going to take appropriate actions, and you can't stop us. We don't care that you say it was AI. It was…
They've been milking the elevated volume of calls thats been happened over the past 6 years...
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#78The article is clearly AI generated and I was assuming the author was using AI to write from the perspective of the guy Tarus helped out. Seems like it is a real story, but using AI to write this article over dramatically is a very odd delivery and put me off initially.
I just hope the guy rewrites this post to be less AI and drama and more about the human essence of what just happened here. It is a very human story and an interesting discussion nonetheless.
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#79I 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!)
It worked for Stephen Hawking, and he was totally worth listening to.
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#80A challenging writing style on a really difficult to read page with a sloppy AI header image means that this article was a not a great experience.
Yeah, unbearable AI-writing at a level not seen often, it's like the author purposely asked it to be even more bloated than usual.