Has company implemented autonomous AI agents, has it affected employment?
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nutwiss@reddit
I use ai agents every day. A lot of coders do. It's just the latest tool in the box. But you do need to be aware of what they're doing, what permissions they have and exactly what you asked them to do in the first place. They need supervision.
Scooob-e-dooo8158@reddit
Amazon 2025/26 AI-related incidents:
The AWS Outage: In mid-December, engineers allowed an internal AI coding agent to make direct updates to live systems. The AI made an error that deleted part of the production environment, taking down AWS services for 13 hours.
Retail Crashes: In March, Amazon mandated that its engineers heavily use AI coding tools. Shortly after, the North American retail marketplace suffered multiple severe outages in a single week, including one incident where an AI agent retrieved inaccurate advice from an outdated internal wiki. This resulted in 1.6 million errors and approximately 6.3 million lost orders.
The Response: Following these disruptions, Amazon initiated a "90-day code safety reset". They mandated dual human approvals for all production changes and put a temporary block on allowing AI agents to directly alter core systems without senior oversight.
Employee "Tokenmaxxing": Following the outages and rising AI processing costs, Amazon shut down "KiroRank"—an internal company leaderboard that tracked and ranked employees based on how much AI they used. Executives had to tell staff to stop using AI "just for the sake of it".
nutwiss@reddit
Oh, I know! They are like a very fast intern. They don't necessarily know the bigger picture, and will make very short-sighted or even flat-out incorrect assumptions, just to please the user. This is why nothing should go anywhere near a live system without a code review.
Scooob-e-dooo8158@reddit
OMG. The number of times Copilot congratulated me for my modular thinking when it was actually Copilot that gave me the solution to my problem in Excel. So damned annoying.
evenstevens280@reddit
We adopted AI agents for coding a while back, and I dare say our code quality has plummeted.
People are too eager to trust these things.
Yes, they get things done lightning fast but damn is it dangerous in the hands of the ignorant.
nutwiss@reddit
I couldn't agree more!
MonkeyTheBlackCat@reddit
The day people replace pilots with AI is the day people stop getting on planes. I feel fairly safe.
Ralphisinthehouse@reddit
Not to quibble but pilots have been largely replaced with AI. Planes can land and take off and fly themselves now. Pilots are really there for reassurance and to take over if something goes wrong.
I see that as computers and humans working in harmony, personally.
MonkeyTheBlackCat@reddit
No quibble at all!
In all honesty mate this is just a lack of understanding on your part. AI does not take off or land the plane whatsoever. Autoland is only ever used when the pilots have such little visibility that a normal landing is impossible, this creates a lot more work for air traffic control and massively reduces the volume of traffic they can accept (for Heathrow I think you're looking at 45 landings per hour down to 30).
Auto take off is simply not a thing, it is strictly hand flown for so many reasons.
Ralphisinthehouse@reddit
I didn't say it does, I said it can 😉
MonkeyTheBlackCat@reddit
No they cannot, there is no system on an A320 (probably what you fly on the most) that can enable the aircraft to take off automatically.
nutwiss@reddit
True. Although increasingly some of the short -hop / private jet manufacturers are rolling it out. It'll be interesting whether it's cleared by the authorities for use in the wider world.
MonkeyTheBlackCat@reddit
I expect the issue is mostly with the airports and not the aircraft. Autoland requires a number of guidance systems that simply aren't there for an automatic take off.
Professional_Goal311@reddit
You do know most planes run on auto pilot and in most cases the landing and taking off is only done by the pilots
TheUnSungHero7790@reddit
Like most jobs, 90% of it most people can do with a short amount of training and experience, it's the nuance 10% of your job where you earn your money.
jcol26@reddit
yep flying a modern plane is relatively easy. It’s knowing what to do when the pitot tubes freeze over and you loose all the automatic systems and have to keep it in the air by hand where the hard work kicks in
MonkeyTheBlackCat@reddit
Autopilot is not pressing one button and letting the plane waft you to the destination. It is a combination of systems that are tightly managed and supervised by the aircrew.
Sure if you're on a 12 hour flight there will be long stints in the cruise where all the pilots need to do is keep an eye on weather, monitor the aircraft systems and occasionally adjust the heading, but on a 3 hour flight from the UK to Italy? There's a lot of work to do.
MarkRand@reddit
I work in a reddit karma farm. AI agents have been a key turning point in the employment of our organisation. It is used for:
💬 Answering community questions
💡 Generating new ideas
✅ Checking that any remaining humans are doing thier jobs properly
I hope this helps! Let me know if you need anything else.
welsh_cthulhu@reddit
The driving range?
thesaharadesert@reddit
Autonomous Golf Robots
Rare-Quantity5503@reddit
Agents aren’t at: Here are our training manuals, please do the job
They currently enhance a well motivated employee quite heavily. I can do the work of what would have been at least 4/5 people now with Claude code buried in my companies files.
Generally speaking there isn’t much reason for a normal person in a normal job to push too hard. If you completely automate away your job and let your employer know, you’ll be out of a job rather than rewarded for it.
I think micro companies are going to boom as incentives align and catch up to dinosaurs that are slow moving. (In certain sectors of course)
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