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.

 

[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.

I reread this. The problem domain is kind of niche, updating a codebase to be compatible with a newer version of the language, in this case Java. This is not something developers do that often.

Most language updates are also backward compatible too, so the rework needed is often small, i.e. Java 8 can consume Java 7 without much hassle, typically.

Where there are incompatibilities, the transformations are often very well defined and easily carried out by developers, automating this is interesting but hardly a huge technical breakthrough, taking already working and tested code and producing from it, updated working code is not a huge thing.

 

[scruffy]

You get a lot - a LOT - of mistakes when you rely on AI.

Google is a great example. Their AI is completely fucked up, it lies a lot.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

You get a lot - a LOT - of mistakes when you rely on AI.

Google is a great example. Their AI is completely fucked up, it lies a lot.

 

[scruffy]

aI is blowing up in Google's face. None of their stuff works anymore. Even their stupid spell checker stops working when the ai can't understand a long sentence

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

aI is blowing up in Google's face. None of their stuff works anymore. Even their stupid spell checker stops working when the ai can't understand a long sentence

I'm sick of hearing "AI" every-fuckin-where I go these days. It was fun and interesting back in the old days, now its just a fad and has little to do with intelligence.