FRESH

Hacker News

'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack

121 points by doener

by gavinray

3 subcomments

by stanac

3 subcomments

"Sign up for free access to this post".
There should be a rule about this kind of posts. If there isn't already.
https://archive.ph/1YRCE

by giancarlostoro

2 subcomments

I'm surprised with Amazon and Meta in terms of AI. Less surprised with Google, I think Google has a very specific niche they picked. If you really think about it, you don't have to be the absolute best, you just have to keep refining your model for efficiency and cost, and I think that's Google's true goals and secret sauce. Google will snowball into place. They're also used more than most people realize.
https://cloud.google.com/customers/qualia
Then there's Mark Z who is throwing away piles of money, but nothing to show for it other than letting people easily hack his social media sites? I really hope they never let an AI just send someone a link like that again? If you're at the point where a person is taking over an account, have a human review it, check for red flags like a VPN.

by cmiles8

1 subcomments

Amazon’s attempts at AI tooling are just far too behind to be taken seriously. Kiro, Quick whatever, the Alexa updates. All just a hot mess. Amazon’s own employees appear to have abandoned Kiro en mass when allowed to just use Claude.
Amazon should just focus on being a utility compute provider. Anything they try to do on top of that is just consistently second rate.

by nozzlegear

2 subcomments

I've never worked in a big corporate environment, so I'm always surprised that these companies allow employees to mock their own products/managers/bosses.
(Not saying it shouldn't be allowed, just that it's surprising based on how controlling I'd expect a big corp like Amazon to be.)

by zuzululu

2 subcomments

Maybe those people need to part ways with the company and let professionals replace them instead

by yesitcan

0 subcomment

> I've recreated all the memes rather than share screenshots from the Slack channel in order to protect sources.
300 IQ move. Nobody will be able to trace it back to sources now.

0 subcomment

by Insanity

1 subcomments

by kotaKat

3 subcomments

Sidebar: I love how Amazon basically gave up on AWS Chime for Slack. Even dogfooding their own messaging product didn't work.

by Perz1val

1 subcomments

by economistbob

0 subcomment

Any text forums these days has the grokenspiels played by sloppenheimers. It feels like a literature cross between Punk'd and Crank Yankers but stars clanker wankers rather than TV and movie celebrities.

by ChrisArchitect

0 subcomment

Another one of these 404 Media bait posts, okay, we got it, there's internal staff memes.
Related:
Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400311

by bebeidjdkrjrjr

0 subcomment

by tcp_handshaker

0 subcomment

You cant deliver and have quality engineering teams, while you spent the last 15 years treating your employees under a frugal way, and being the biggest H1B IT employer in the US.