Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate workforce

They've been saying this for years though. The AI agents will probably be the first to form a union for unfair worker practices.

Amazon is a leader in global trade. I really hate to see what the 'We shouldn't have did this' outcome looks like by adding AI to it. Might be good, might be bad.

> We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.

What he hopes for is to just reduce the number of people they employ. So the "more people doing other types of jobs" just makes the message more palatable.

Suppose all companies follow the suite who is going to buy their crap?

Is there a way we can filter these kinds of articles out? It's becoming tiring. Maybe I should start using the API and an LLM to filter.

This headline is getting old and the story isn’t sticking with folks. They will do layoffs but because core business units are struggling and AWS has turned into a mess of disconnected services that are falling behind peers and they’re trying to clean up that bloated mess… not beside of “AI.”

Amazon is also way behind tech peers on AI. These sorts of puff PR pieces don’t do much to shake that reality.

Jassy is the prototypical Amhole. Always with a good zeitgesity excuse for screwing the workforce.

So glad I left that place.