Amazon founder Jeff Bezos believes that artificial intelligence is going to lead to unprecedented productivity gains which could result in cheaper food, housing, and two income households deciding that they no longer need two incomes. Internally, Amazon employees mock the company’s AI tools, refer to its output as “slop,” and joke about the company’s failed attempt to motivate employees to use AI tools effectively.

The memes are yet another example of the contrast between what AI companies say in public about its potential power and benefit versus the reality of how the people who help create these AI tools use and criticize them internally. Amazon employees told me about these memes after they saw my story last week about Google employees also internally sharing memes critical of Google’s AI tools.

“Now I have everything I need,” says the text over an image of a jet taking off in one meme posted by an Amazon employee. The jet is edited to carry the purple ghost logo for Kiro, Amazon’s AI-powered coding tool. “Narrator: He did not have everything he needed,” says the text over an image of a bunch of people left behind on the tarmac. I've recreated all the memes rather than share screenshots from the Slack channel in order to protect sources.

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I love TAS! I used to follow a bunch of SNES TASsers back in the day; haven't really kept up with the more modern runs outside of the occasional GDQ event. There was a culture of "swag" that I enjoyed, where if something didn't cost any time then the TAS was encouraged to show off with it, or chain-spam cool stunts during waiting periods.

I kinda wish they'd stop focusing so much on arbitrary code execution though. ACE setups are interesting to explain but tedious to watch, and the payoff is whatever payload the TAS authors write, not game content. It's basically showing off a game mod, but since you're writing assembly code in the least user-friendly manner imaginable, most (with a few rare, incredible exceptions) are simple skips to the credits so the video is just the bot running around performing random actions until the game suddenly ends.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

True, Ace is cool from a technical wow that's possible perspective but I much prefer the traditional chain running cook tricks type of runs.