AWS CEO Matt Garman is bucking the AI-job-apocalypse narrative, arguing that replacing junior workers with artificial intelligence is both shortsighted and bad for business, per Fortune.
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman is pushing back hard against the growing chorus of tech leaders warning that AI will decimate the workforce. In an interview with Wired and on the Platformer podcast this week, Garman called replacing junior software developers with AI “one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.”
Entry-level workers cost less, bring fresh energy, and arrive fluent in AI tools, he argued. Cutting them kills the talent pipeline. Amazon plans to hire 11,000 interns and recent graduates in 2026 and today employs more software developers than two years ago. Garman acknowledged AI will reshape work but rejected catastrophism. “If you believe that half of jobs get wiped out, the whole economy collapses on itself,” he said. “Wipe out and change are different.”
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