Tell HN: Amazon forgot how to write and test code

9 points by penskymaterial 11 hours ago | 2 comments

On an older but perfectly serviceable PC with 16GB RAM, Amazon.com idles at 20% CPU and will spike to 80-100% when scrolling. The screen tears and typing sometimes takes seconds before characters appear.

This is hilariously bad and a harbinger of the ongoing decline of the industry right now.

verdverm 11 hours ago |

this is more a symptom of the pilled who decided eyes-free coding is a good idea, some of us are using Ai more effectively to improve our code

rvrs 20 minutes ago | |

Amazon's customer-facing software has always been quite terrible across the board IME, even before LLM coding. The Alexa app, for example, is awful