I’m so glad I left. The execs there are comically incompetent.
Amazon ain't it. "Democratizing AI" is a cover for the fact that Amazon has no models worthy of contention, so they have to save face by funding and serving up other company's models.
One could argue, "oh they have that guy from AllenAI." But where are AllenAI's code generation models? Where are AllenAI's LLMs? Nowhere.
Amazon leadership is horribly incompetent.
You could start at the first quoted remark: "If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can't exactly predict where it is — it's possible that most developers are not coding."
1. Doesn't seem to demonstrate understanding of what developers actually do.
2. Poor understanding of the limitations of the technology he's talking about.
3. Totally unrealistic timeline.
4. The kind of claim that has been made countless times, about countless technologies, and has never panned out yet. That doesn't mean it won't ever pan out, but it means it warrants a huge amount of skepticism.
And last time I checked AWS’ AI assistant won’t even handle IAM policies. So at least those jobs should be safe.