Amazon CEO: AI-Assisted Code Transformation Saved Us 4,500 Years of Developer Work

[1srelluc]

LOL.....So much for "learn to code".

Amazon CEO: AI-Assisted Code Transformation Saved Us 4,500 Years of Developer Work - Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp shared this anecdote about Amazon's GenAI assistant for software development, Amazon Q: On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to Twitter to boast that using Amazon Q to do Java upgrades has already saved Amazon from having to pay for 4,500 developer-years of...

developers.slashdot.org

On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to Twitter to boast that using Amazon Q to do Java upgrades has already saved Amazon from having to pay for 4,500 developer-years of work. ("Yes, that number is crazy but, real," writes Jassy).

And Jassy says it also provided Amazon with an additional $260M in annualized efficiency gains from enhanced security and reduced infrastructure costs.

"Our developers shipped 79% of the auto-generated code reviews without any additional changes," Jassy explained. "This is a great example of how large-scale enterprises can gain significant efficiencies in foundational software hygiene work by leveraging Amazon Q."

So much of the IT industry is going to be replaced.

Same with the tax and legal industries, among countless others.

The next 20 years are going to get really weird in that job market.

Sigh, maybe they can learn to mine coal.

 

[Manonthestreet]

LOL.....So much for "learn to code".

Amazon CEO: AI-Assisted Code Transformation Saved Us 4,500 Years of Developer Work - Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp shared this anecdote about Amazon's GenAI assistant for software development, Amazon Q: On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to Twitter to boast that using Amazon Q to do Java upgrades has already saved Amazon from having to pay for 4,500 developer-years of...

developers.slashdot.org

On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to Twitter to boast that using Amazon Q to do Java upgrades has already saved Amazon from having to pay for 4,500 developer-years of work. ("Yes, that number is crazy but, real," writes Jassy).

And Jassy says it also provided Amazon with an additional $260M in annualized efficiency gains from enhanced security and reduced infrastructure costs.

"Our developers shipped 79% of the auto-generated code reviews without any additional changes," Jassy explained. "This is a great example of how large-scale enterprises can gain significant efficiencies in foundational software hygiene work by leveraging Amazon Q."
So much of the IT industry is going to be replaced.

Same with the tax and legal industries, among countless others.

The next 20 years are going to get really weird in that job market.

Sigh, maybe they can learn to mine coal.

Mining coal is verboten

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

LOL.....So much for "learn to code".

Amazon CEO: AI-Assisted Code Transformation Saved Us 4,500 Years of Developer Work - Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp shared this anecdote about Amazon's GenAI assistant for software development, Amazon Q: On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to Twitter to boast that using Amazon Q to do Java upgrades has already saved Amazon from having to pay for 4,500 developer-years of...

developers.slashdot.org

On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to Twitter to boast that using Amazon Q to do Java upgrades has already saved Amazon from having to pay for 4,500 developer-years of work. ("Yes, that number is crazy but, real," writes Jassy).

And Jassy says it also provided Amazon with an additional $260M in annualized efficiency gains from enhanced security and reduced infrastructure costs.

"Our developers shipped 79% of the auto-generated code reviews without any additional changes," Jassy explained. "This is a great example of how large-scale enterprises can gain significant efficiencies in foundational software hygiene work by leveraging Amazon Q."
So much of the IT industry is going to be replaced.

Same with the tax and legal industries, among countless others.

The next 20 years are going to get really weird in that job market.

Sigh, maybe they can learn to mine coal.

There's significant hype here I'm afraid.

 

[1srelluc]

There's significant hype here I'm afraid.

Well since I can't nuke it from orbit, I'll continue my boycott of Amazon just to be sure.

 

[alang1216]

LOL.....So much for "learn to code".

Amazon CEO: AI-Assisted Code Transformation Saved Us 4,500 Years of Developer Work - Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp shared this anecdote about Amazon's GenAI assistant for software development, Amazon Q: On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to Twitter to boast that using Amazon Q to do Java upgrades has already saved Amazon from having to pay for 4,500 developer-years of...

developers.slashdot.org

On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to Twitter to boast that using Amazon Q to do Java upgrades has already saved Amazon from having to pay for 4,500 developer-years of work. ("Yes, that number is crazy but, real," writes Jassy).

And Jassy says it also provided Amazon with an additional $260M in annualized efficiency gains from enhanced security and reduced infrastructure costs.

"Our developers shipped 79% of the auto-generated code reviews without any additional changes," Jassy explained. "This is a great example of how large-scale enterprises can gain significant efficiencies in foundational software hygiene work by leveraging Amazon Q."

So much of the IT industry is going to be replaced.

Same with the tax and legal industries, among countless others.

The next 20 years are going to get really weird in that job market.

Sigh, maybe they can learn to mine coal.

We have tool at work that, with minimal input of parameters, will write a python program from scratch. I don't know if this will be a good thing or a bad thing in the long run. It will certainly enable non-programmers to code and will create code that otherwise would never be written due to cost. That could enrich all our lives. Doctors and lawyers will also be affected but that may just make medical and legal work available to more and more people.

 

[ding]

Programmers to be replaced by AI. Brilliant.