Loading ...AMAZON PRIME VIDEO BLOODBATH — 2,847 employees got the email at 6:47 AM PST – Amazon case study in how to get replaced by AI after you train it.
The kicker: those eliminated seniors spent 8 months documenting every architectural decision into internal wikis
Every code pattern. Every debugging workflow. Every performance optimization trick
That documentation just became training data for the AI systems replacing them
VP of Engineering sent company-wide: “This transition represents our commitment to AI-first development”
One former L7 told me: “I literally trained the AI that made me redundant”