Amazon-Mitarbeiter sagen, dass KI die Arbeitsbelastung nur erhöht. Eine neue Studie bestätigt ihren Verdacht
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-employees-say-ai-is-just-increasing-workload-a-new-study-confirms-their-suspicions-2000732794
Amazon-Mitarbeiter sagen, dass KI die Arbeitsbelastung nur erhöht. Eine neue Studie bestätigt ihren Verdacht
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-employees-say-ai-is-just-increasing-workload-a-new-study-confirms-their-suspicions-2000732794
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Amazon is LYING? Noooooooo.
If you have to check all of the work that someone who reports to you does because they’ll inevitably fuck up a non-insignificant amount of the time and never learned from their mistakes you’d fire that person because checking work *is* work.
Somehow genai boosters think it’s totally reasonable to say, „well, you always have to check the output but most of the time it works.“
Don’t worry employees. Bezos will reduce your workload to zero very soon.
I always imagined at Amazon the work is mostly load balancing algorithms or other little optimizations, it is kind of coding that requires more thinking and careful slow testing or tinkering as opposed to churning out lots of new code or features
All i know is that every document that comes off my pm is ai-generated slop, and i’m fucking tired of it; nothing makes sense and the amount of information that is simply not there, or is hallucinated, is astonishing.
Im curious about AI in the warehouses? I keep hearing robots are coming but idk when i read stuff like this
One of the big problems I’m encountering with AI tools at work is that it happily generates a shitload of text for something that probably doesn’t require it. People can easily churn out a garbage 6-pager that takes me just as much time to read as a good one. A simple slack response is instead 5 paragraphs of useless flowery language shit out by Claude. For every second it saves me, I spend at least as much time reading/reviewing/questioning the mountain of slop I’m now buried under.
Worse than the so called computer revolution. When companies started computerizing there were people claiming the productivity increase would lead to 35 hour work weeks and companies would still be more profitable than they were. Instead they cut jobs by the thousands and made the people who remained do more. Now that they want us using ai at work it does not mean better work/life balance it means this year’s goal is ten percent more productivity from each of you. Which means twenty percent more job stress. And the oligarchs are now suggesting people put in more hours as well.
I work in Tech. I spend more time talking about how to use AI and brainstorming all the ways we can use AI to do things we do today but better/faster, than I do actually using AI.
I mainly use agentic AI to edit my emails to tone them down, organize my thoughts and as a teacher.
Its also great to summarize some new tech you are trying to wrap your head around.
It increases workload and causes more layoffs, so what is the real purpose of AI at Amazon?
get ready for 996 work schedules that pay just enough to get your meal slop from mcdonalds and a bunk bed in shared housing.
Just like when computers, and then the internet, were introduced – they said we’d have more leisure time and instead everything became more urgent and it became hard to disconnect.
At the end of the day a person has to choose when to augment their workflow with LLMs. I sometimes look at the output and just do it myself because it would take too long to fix the bullshit output it generated. Sometimes it is, in fact, better to just do it yourself.
Would explain why 2 of the last 3 items I bought were obviously returned items that didn’t get inspected
No wonder they have been having so many outages lately
I’ll review any human generated work. AI can review AI work.
The AI blows, the one they use for delivery routes never puts most of the houses on the right side with the main door. No, instead make 30 U-turns a day, not acknowledging driveway orientation to make MORE U-turns and bundling stops that are more than 200 feet away. The AI is stupid and trained terribly
Every corporate job is like this. Work hard and get a lot done? Your reward is more work. We’ve been doing minimum 40hrs a week since the Model T. Not a single advancement in any field has made our jobs easier.
But all the tech bros get to say the word AI over and over again! You’re not going to deny them that are you?
Of course it is, every extra second you create yourself now has to be filled with some new task.
AI is just the unfunny TPS reports of this Mike Judgeian reality which we all find ourselves in.
Now we gunna start getting “lean” ai workflows to reduce rework and other waste. Going to need to use ai to assess the processes and help identify non-value-added work. I bet one human could do the job of 20!!!
AI was supposed to free up time for creative work. Instead management just filled that „freed up“ time with more tasks and now you’re doing your old job plus babysitting AI output. Classic.