Uncanny Valley | WIRED BIG INTV: AWS CEO Matt Garman Doesn’t Think AI Should Replace Junior Devs
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Dec 16, 2025 
Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, shares insights from his extensive journey at Amazon. He argues against the notion of AI replacing junior developers, emphasizing the value of mentorship and talent pipelines. Garman discusses AWS's ambitious AI strategy, including Nova Forge for customized model training. He highlights the importance of data quality for successful AI implementation and reassures that emerging jobs will result from AI innovations. Additionally, he touches on AWS's commitment to renewable energy as part of their net-zero goals.
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From Intern To AWS CEO
- Matt Garman told how he joined AWS as an intern in 2005 and helped launch core services like S3 and EC2.
- He described growing from product roles into sales, then CEO, learning technical and management skills along the way.
Cloud Frees Companies To Build What Matters
- AWS abstracts non-differentiating infrastructure so companies can focus on their product logic.
- That model scaled from startups to enterprises and public-sector customers like the US government.
Agents Are The Next Stage Of AI
- Garman views generative AI as moving from content creation to agentic systems that perform tasks and reason.
- He argues agents deliver multiplicative business value when integrated with enterprise data and workflows.