Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots

[mowens]

I think I should rephrase this.
It should be "Gort, [your name] barada nikto".

[TylerBeer]

The future is for the most part, seemingly less fun

[Newbeeee™]

The future is for the most part, seemingly less fun

Klaus disagrees with you....although you'll own nothing, you'll be happy....

[TylerBeer]

Klaus disagrees with you....although you'll own nothing, you'll be happy....

I feel bad for the 20 something's just starting out - going to have to be a reaaaaal big crash for any of them to afford anything. Maybe the boomers finally kicking it en mass

[Newbeeee™]

I feel bad for the 20 something's just starting out - going to have to be a reaaaaal big crash for any of them to afford anything. Maybe the boomers finally kicking it en mass

Nope...prices won't be falling IMHO....

[DUM1]

We were supposed to be driving flying cars by now, I am thinking it's going to be a while before we are all replaced

[mowens]

I think, for a while, they'll need people to give instructions to the AI.

[Rstewart]

The funniest part about that is with GPT, All of the recent apps I have done I have written almost no code, just prompts to GPT and a lot of copy/paste and testing. I occasionally have to review code because it just gets stuck on an idea or specific word that keeps producing errors.

Bro, I would be lost writing code if it wasn't for GPT

[neurosis]

And now for corporate employees. 

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/

The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon's 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of its roughly 350,000 corporate employees. This would mark Amazon's largest job cut since late 2022, when it started to eliminate around 27,000 positions.

Hopefully the g/f's son-in-law doesn't get cut.  He's supposed to find out today.

[YoDoug]

After working in MFG and machining for 25+ years, I have seen my fair share of jobs being cut because of our sourcing and technology/automation. I can't ever remember many white collar folks showing a whole lot of empathy for us dirty grunt workers while they look down from their "higher" class jobs. Hearing them whine and complain about AI taking their jobs is almost slightly amusing.

[CNCAppsJames]

We automate out of necessity more often than not. 

[YoDoug]

We automate out of necessity more often than not.

We automate so our employees can be more productive and we can put more labor dollars into activities that help grow the company. We currently have 55 total employees (about 20 are machine shop and programming). We have 17 robots not including our three Fastems FMS systems. That's about 1:3 ratio of robots to humans.

We also look at other areas for automating as well. Right now I have another software/hardware project I'm working on. Every part we machine gets an engraved part number. Most parts go out for outside finishing (powder coat, anodize, hard coat, cerakote, etc.) When they come back a human has to go through them, read each part number and check/type them into inventory. We have Cognex working on a machine learning OCR camera setup that will identify the part numbers, then my software will match that part number from possible finish part numbers for the operator to select. The idea is to reduce eye fatigue reading part numbers all days and reduce typos/errors from humans

[gcode]

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents

Unionize this  bitch

Walmart decides to use  Tesla robots    RoboCop for loss prevention.

[neurosis]

[TylerBeer]

Brutal. Jobs report might not match what Trump wants so we'll see claims again it was calculated wrong.