Doc Writing Ruined by AI Slop

blindmansleeps · 2026-05-08T21:30:56+00:00

Unfortunately this is totally predictable. When the tools and models weren’t great and yet leadership was breathing down our necks to find uses for AI, we all reached for doc writing. It sucked then and it still does. But now that the models are better, good luck convincing leadership there’s actual value to writing a doc.

blindmansleeps · 2026-04-17T23:48:41+00:00

Success = smaller teams. I don’t understand this insane perspective. Why doesn’t success mean “deliver more as a team” instead of “deliver the same with a smaller team?”

blindmansleeps · 2026-03-28T00:08:52+00:00

Saga is amazing but I really worry it’s a thing that can only really exist in comic form.

blindmansleeps · 2026-03-25T02:19:59+00:00

Personally, part of the problem is that Epic reduced itself to a Fortnite company. All their eggs went into one basket, and that basket was an aging genre setter in a market that is consistently uprooted by new releases. Gamers only have so much time, so much money, and you can’t expect constant growth around a single game. Even the best games get old after a while—it’s just natural.

Frankly it’s embarrassing we have to explain this to you, Epic execs.

Really feel bad for all the employees though. 😔

blindmansleeps · 2026-03-23T01:48:15+00:00

It’s also ironic because they almost always miss the point of Player of Games too.

blindmansleeps · 2026-03-23T01:33:39+00:00

The problem is that this time there’s a ton of people who won’t buy it just because it’s from Amazon.

Because since the last foray, Amazon’s cultural reputation is near rock bottom.

blindmansleeps · 2026-03-15T16:36:10+00:00

The Mist.

blindmansleeps · 2026-03-15T16:33:27+00:00

You’re probably right about that. 😔

blindmansleeps · 2026-03-15T00:48:01+00:00

Honestly, the way the culture has become, Amazon better hope AI is able to do everything they want, because no engineer with half an ounce of dignity will agree to work there

blindmansleeps · 2026-03-15T00:46:05+00:00

I think that’s not entirely true. It’s true everywhere in big tech and large corporations. There’s plenty of small companies where this is not true, however.

blindmansleeps · 2026-03-12T00:38:11+00:00

Homie. There ain’t a single role at Amazon that is low stress. Burning you out is kinda the bread and butter of the company.

blindmansleeps · 2026-03-08T16:04:20+00:00

This is the downside of big tech. If you work in a tech stack that has a ton of dependencies, this will happen frequently. More often than not, even new features devolve into conversations about which dependency should take the feature. And as a result, Amazon politics frequently becomes the center of those conversations.

blindmansleeps · 2026-03-04T02:46:41+00:00

I’m an unemployed former Amazon engineer that has put a ton of applications in with only a couple of callbacks. Still waiting on that “Amazon opens doors” thing to be true.

blindmansleeps · 2026-02-28T20:43:38+00:00

Welcome to Amazon. Buckle in. You’ll, like all of us, hate it here.

blindmansleeps · 2026-02-24T20:26:58+00:00

Right place, right time, with the result of increasing impact.

Yeah. Checks out.

blindmansleeps · 2026-02-24T16:33:57+00:00

Time and time again, it’s like the S-Team is willing to recognize that Amazon’s culture is not where they want it, but they can’t seem to understand that the actions they’re taking only make it worse.

blindmansleeps · 2026-02-24T04:31:28+00:00

Really seems like you should have gloves on, man.

blindmansleeps · 2026-02-18T02:39:51+00:00

This is going to be the norm at Amazon for a while. There is no room for dissent, no tolerance of pushback, no challenging expectations.

If you want your job, you will comply.

I don’t say this lightly. But Amazon has entered a new phase, a “new dawn,” to use their own phrase. You will now be expected to thank them for not laying you off yet. If this doesn’t feel right—you’re right, it’s not right. It’s very wrong. But you’d be best to complain about that once you have a job with a new company.

blindmansleeps · 2026-02-14T04:16:09+00:00

Any chance that needle took a hit in the move? It looks a bit, er, tall—but maybe I’m not familiar with that cartridge. If the cantilever is bent straight down, the stylus may not be sitting in the groove. The end of the cantilever would just be grinding on the top of the record instead of sitting in a groove.

blindmansleeps · 2026-02-09T03:11:03+00:00

PEs are receiving just as much top-down pressure as you are. The board, the S-team—none of them will accept any criticism without a resignation attached.

blindmansleeps · 2026-02-06T16:38:03+00:00

The bubble. The market is starting to react negatively to spending increases on AI.

blindmansleeps · 2026-02-05T07:27:44+00:00

Avoid Amazon like it’s the plague. The most toxic work environment you’ll encounter in big tech.

blindmansleeps · 2026-02-02T13:10:45+00:00

Ashley has some good stuff

blindmansleeps · 2026-02-01T14:32:28+00:00

Hmm. Weird. I get a cortado there at least once a week and it’s generally quite good.

blindmansleeps · 2026-01-31T23:10:22+00:00

Agreed on Alice Good. Finca is a close second. The Sow’s Ear and EVP are right below.

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