There is a revolt in Indian technology companies.
At the Amazon India office, Supervisor R is in the thick of it.
Meanwhile, his boss has been increasingly emailing him about AI implementation metrics and training schedules. And on the other side are the developers he oversees, and their complaints about these tools are only going to get louder.
“Kiro (the company’s in-house AI coding tool) makes the API very hallucinatory, and tries to convince the coder that this is what was requested. Why learn new coding techniques for something that requires so much validation?” a senior developer recently told R.
He felt a migraine coming on as R subtly canceled the latest training session while placating the developer. “I’m always just putting out fires,” he said.
This developer is far from alone. 1,500 engineers gather at Amazon’s US headquarters in February
To be fair, top management doesn’t really have a choice. In most cases, companies have entered into enterprise-wide agreements for these tools and are tracking their implementation in preparation for their next investor call.
The recent AI Summit will only accelerate this top-down push. OpenAI
Meanwhile, India has also emerged as one of them.
