Matt Garman—Amazon’s CEO—talking about why firing all your junior programmers for AI is a bad idea.
With Kiro and part of what we’ve done in Agentic coding first kind of mentality is that you actually start with a spec of the thing that you want to build and then you work with the tool to actually go and build parts of that spec and as you’re vibe coding you it it can automatically change parts of that spec but you still have that spec as the core thing you can always go back to and change aspects of it or functions of it or whatever it is. Um, and we have seen the light bulb go on because it actually one of the cool things about that is that you can actually guide more junior developers as to like what are great coding practices, how do we think about this?
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I was at a group a leadership group and people were telling me they’re like we think that with AI we can replace all of our junior people in our company. I was like that’s the like one the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. like they’re probably the least expensive employees you have. They’re the most leaned into your AI tools and like how’s that going to work when you go like 10 years in the future and you have no one that has built up or learned anything. Um and so it’s you know I I my view is like you absolutely want to keep hiring kids out of college and teaching them the right ways to go build software and decompose problems and think about it um just as much as you ever have.
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