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Why We Are Here => Economics & Investing => Topic started by: rcjordan on July 01, 2025, 06:58:52 PM

Title: Wow! That promised "replacement by attrition" went pretty fast.
Post by: rcjordan on July 01, 2025, 06:58:52 PM

Amazon hits 1 million warehouse robots, nearly matching its human workforce | TechSpot

https://www.techspot.com/news/108519-amazon-hits-1-million-warehouse-robots-nearly-matching.html
Title: Re: Wow! That promised "replacement by attrition" went pretty fast.
Post by: ergophobe on July 02, 2025, 11:13:09 PM
Politicians need to enact policies to bring back those good warehouse jobs.
Title: Re: Wow! That promised "replacement by attrition" went pretty fast.
Post by: rcjordan on July 03, 2025, 12:31:37 PM
CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs - WSJ
Title: Re: Wow! That promised "replacement by attrition" went pretty fast.
Post by: ergophobe on July 03, 2025, 08:57:18 PM
Meanwhile, at an earlier stage in life

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College (May 7)
https://longreads.com/2025/05/21/chatgpt-ai-college-cheating/


Related

The Teachers Are Not OK (June 2)
https://longreads.com/2025/06/10/teachers-are-not-ok/
Title: Re: Wow! That promised "replacement by attrition" went pretty fast.
Post by: ergophobe on July 05, 2025, 01:07:56 AM
Uh oh! It's not just the warehouse workers. White-collar workers with college degrees might lose jobs which, of course, is the definition of a crisis.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells workers: AI will replace some of you
https://www.techspot.com/news/108359-amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-tells-workers-ai-replace.html


"Like an assembly line": Amazon engineers feel squeezed by AI-driven workflow
QuoteTeams that once counted a dozen developers have been cut in half, yet the volume of code they're expected to deliver remains unchanged."
https://www.techspot.com/news/108067-amazon-engineers-ai-has-turned-coding-assembly-line.html
Title: Re: Wow! That promised "replacement by attrition" went pretty fast.
Post by: littleman on July 08, 2025, 08:12:08 PM
I might have mentioned it before but I have been using ChatGPT for doing code snipers for a while now and it's a huge time saver.  This tech is bad for a paycheck, but great for side projects.