AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

Posted by birdculture 12/17/2025

AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'(www.finalroundai.com)

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dwa3592 12/17/2025|

on a separate note- If AI eats the SaaS, what will happen to AWS?

geodel 12/17/2025|

Umm.. more business. Because AI runs in cloud and consume even more resources.

dwa3592 12/17/2025||

but which business?

enigma101 12/18/2025||

first the junior then the senior and finally the ceo...

gorbachev 12/17/2025||

Somebody gets it.

tonyhart7 12/17/2025||

shareholder wouldn't like this

testemailfordg2 12/18/2025||

Is or Was?

oytis 12/17/2025||

Am I going crazy or he already said that several months ago?

ayewo 12/18/2025|

Yes, you are not imagining things :)

Discussed on HN 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44972151

mxkopy 12/17/2025||

They must’ve forgot who created the first tech hype bubbles in the first place bc I’m about to replace some of these companies if I don’t get hired soon

Nextgrid 12/17/2025|

This is performative bullshit pandering to the increased skepticism around AI. He wouldn't be saying that if AI investment was still in full swing.

I do agree with him about AI being a boon to juniors and pragmatic usage of AI is an improvement in productivity, but that's not news, it's been obvious since the very beginnings of LLMs.

grogenaut 12/17/2025|

So it's performative when the head of AWS says it and not news. But it's not performative when you say it and people should have listened to you in the comments?

Nextgrid 12/17/2025||

It's performative when you talk whatever the market wants to hear rather than sticking to an opinion (no matter how flawed it is). This behavior reminds me of the cryptobros that were hailing NFTs/web3 as the next best thing since sliced bread, and when that didn't came to pass quietly moved onto the next grift (AI) with the same playbook.

(also I’m just talking out of my ass on a tech forum under a pseudonym instead of going to well-publicized interviews)

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