“It just means that each of us has to get more in tune with what our customers need and what the actual end thing is that we’re going to try to go build because that’s going to be more and more of what the work is as opposed to sitting down and actually writing code”
Matt Garman said this to his own staff in a June fireside chat, weeks into the AWS CEO job. He put the end of most coding 24 months out, or some other amount of time he can’t predict. AWS has about 130,000 employees and laid off several hundred in April. The boss told the people who write AWS’s code that their jobs are going away, then declined to say when.