Amazon engineer confident engineers stay needed in AI era — but barely uses agentic tools
saibharadwaj · x · 2026-10-29
saibharadwaj recounts a conversation with an Amazon software engineer who was very confident engineers will still be needed in the AI era — yet when asked, admitted he had barely used agentic models, AI IDEs, or the latest chatbots. The author uses this to question optimism from practitioners without first-hand AI experience, tying into the wider thread about AI replicating decades of enterprise software work in hours.
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