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untrust 32 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage...

> to the point that one of our seniors atrophied so badly we had to let him go

What was the time scale here? Was it actual skill atrophy or were they just shipping slop PRs all the time

monkaiju 32 days ago [–]

About a year. They were making slop, then when asked to work without AI were unable to be effective for months.

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