Wow! That promised "replacement by attrition" went pretty fast.

[rcjordan]

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

[ergophobe]

Politicians need to enact policies to bring back those good warehouse jobs.

[rcjordan]

CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs - WSJ

[ergophobe]

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/

[ergophobe]

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

Teams 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

[littleman]

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.