Amazon has already begun automating its white-collar jobs
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Re: Amazon has already begun automating its white-collar jobs
#2Poor Jeff Bezos. Now he'll be even more confused about what to do with all of his billions of dollars. He's the the real victim of this development.
Re: Amazon has already begun automating its white-collar jobs
#3Poor Jeff Bezos. Now he'll be even more confused about what to do with all of his billions of dollars. He's the the real victim of this development.
one single anecdote:
instead of installing commercial/industrial chillers on a certain warehouse in the desest, someone opted to install hundreds of 5 ton commercial/residential package units on the roof. That single location is going to burn a few million in maintenance, alone. AFAIK, robots don't do well in > 110°F ambient temps long and they haven't automated replacing motors, blowers, filters, txvs, pistons nor do leak detection/recharging or any other service duties yet.
Gotta love corporate: where big decisions are made by the least qualified.
Re: Amazon has already begun automating its white-collar jobs
#4I mean couldn't one say that a lot of sys admin jobs have been automated by VM's, further by containers and other automated deployment tools? Read somewhere SRE at Google are responsible for a ridiculous amount of computing power per person. Albeit could make the argument that those levels of scale would be impossible to achieve without those tech so maybe not really count.
Re: Amazon has already begun automating its white-collar jobs
#5I can’t help but chuckle that Amazon is turning into an automated central planning authority through ruthless capitalism.
Re: Amazon has already begun automating its white-collar jobs
#6Poor Jeff Bezos. Now he'll be even more confused about what to do with all of his billions of dollars. He's the the real victim of this development.
one single anecdote: instead of installing commercial/industrial chillers on a certain warehouse in the desest, someone opted to install hundreds of 5 ton commercial/residential package units on the roof. That single location is going to burn a few million in maintenance, alone. AFAIK, robots don't do well in > 110°F ambient temps long and they haven't automated replacing motors, blowers, filters, txvs, pistons nor d…
What might have been the reasoning behind doing something like that?
Re: Amazon has already begun automating its white-collar jobs
#7Those same algorithms and the lack of human supervision may now be coming back to haunt them. For example, obvious counterfeiting and other similar scams have become a huge problem for Amazon (from a PR level, if nothing else) and they appear to be struggling to get that under control. My wife and daughter have always been big Amazon fans but lately they've been complaining a lot about problems with their orders, so now I'm seeing more shipments coming in from Walmart and Target and such. Shipping from all sources has lately become far more problematic, too.
Re: Amazon has already begun automating its white-collar jobs
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
one single anecdote: instead of installing commercial/industrial chillers on a certain warehouse in the desest, someone opted to install hundreds of 5 ton commercial/residential package units on the roof. That single location is going to burn a few million in maintenance, alone. AFAIK, robots don't do well in > 110°F ambient temps long and they haven't automated replacing motors, blowers, filters, txvs, pistons nor d…
What might have been the reasoning behind doing something like that?
I imagine simple ignorance, short-sighted savings or someone(project manager/accountant/consultant) "knew better" than the professionals. It happens all the time, this was one of the more egregious "disruptions" of late.
Re: Amazon has already begun automating its white-collar jobs
#9I can’t help but chuckle that Amazon is turning into an automated central planning authority through ruthless capitalism.
Isn't it gennerally accepted that companies are islands of central planning?
Re: Amazon has already begun automating its white-collar jobs
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
one single anecdote: instead of installing commercial/industrial chillers on a certain warehouse in the desest, someone opted to install hundreds of 5 ton commercial/residential package units on the roof. That single location is going to burn a few million in maintenance, alone. AFAIK, robots don't do well in > 110°F ambient temps long and they haven't automated replacing motors, blowers, filters, txvs, pistons nor d…
What might have been the reasoning behind doing something like that?
From what I've heard and read:
1) AWS came up with their AZ layout (small nearby buildings) to avoid needing industrial-scale power and cooling gear.
2) Industrial electricians despise working with web startups because they ask stupid questions like, "can we failover the megawatt bus bars periodically?". Those are intended for emergency failovers annually, not like some kind of API you call repeatedly.