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Writing Crystalized Thinking at Amazon. Is AI Muddying It?

9 points| herbertl | 1 day ago |bigtechnology.com

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RugnirViking|1 day ago

> But when I asked employees about those, I got mostly head shakes or sardonic chuckles in response, suggesting that training is either spottily available or people don’t know it exists.

I think perhaps it instead suggests that the training is delivered by people as clueless if not moreso than the attendees. This has been my general experience with ai training at my workspace.

7777777phil|1 day ago

Managers now requesting longer documents specifically to summarize with AI is almost funny, they've turned a discipline mechanism into a reading-avoidance tool.

Most enterprise AI adoption has this same problem. Companies automate the visible stuff and miss that coordination (the memos, meetings, approvals) is where productivity actually leaks..