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Amazon engineers say AI has turned coding into an assembly line | AI's productivity gains may diminish the creativity that once defined software development


Teams that once counted a dozen developers have been cut in half, yet the volume of code they're expected to deliver remains unchanged – a shift that...

Teams that once counted a dozen developers have been cut in half, yet the volume of code they're expected to deliver remains unchanged – a shift that one engineer described to the New York Times as "building a feature for the website used to take a few weeks; now it must often be done within a few days." CEO Andy Jassy told shareholders that generative AI delivers "big returns for companies that use it for productivity and cost avoidance," and called for faster work to prevent competitors from gaining ground. In 2024, Amazon's cloud computing chief, Matt Garman, predicted that within two years, many software engineers might not be coding at all, but instead focusing on understanding customer needs and building innovative solutions, as AI handles the bulk of traditional programming tasks.

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