This document contains a lot of great stuff. I have a tremendous level of respect, both personal and professional, for Amazon’s Principal Engineering community; I’m led to understand that that respect may not be reciprocated, but that’s okay. I am, by their standards, a lapsed engineer who ran away to join the circus as one of its lesser clowns.
was there really a need to grovel
There’s a ridiculously simple test you can use to figure out whether AI mandates at a given company are well-considered, or are being shoved out the door by out-of-touch buffoons: What happens when an engineer documents that AI made a task worse? Are they taken seriously, or are they marginalized and eventually managed out?
Even easier test: is it an AI mandate?
If AI makes a task easier i find that engineers will use it. Engineers are lazy. We want to automate stuff so ee dont have to do it.
Engineers are a formally certified thing, you don’t get to call yourself an engineer because you make digital machines.
One of the certification requirements is ethical standards and education.
you’re the kind of programmer your colleagues hate having to deal with
This article reads like it was AI generated.
huh???
