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Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has suggested firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is "the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

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... Garman made that remark in conversation with AI investor Matthew Berman, during which he talked up AWS's Kiro AI-assisted coding tool and said he's encountered business leaders who think AI tools "can replace all of our junior people in our company."

That notion led to the "dumbest thing I've ever heard" quote, followed by a justification that junior staff are "probably the least expensive employees you have" and also the most engaged with AI tools.

"How's that going to work when ten years in the future you have no one that has learned anything," he asked. "My view is you absolutely want to keep hiring kids out of college and teaching them the right ways to go build software and decompose problems and think about it, just as much as you ever have." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 08:58 PM | Reply

Yeah, this is similar to my comments along the lines of, ~how do you get senior people in a company when you do not hire and grow the junior people in the company?~

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 09:00 PM | Reply

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