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Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

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It's definitely not. It's a fundamental shift on how we interact with computers. It's a tractors on farms kind of moment.

I brought data to this discussion. What did you bring?

Your data shows a 20% improvement. That's $20-100k a year depending on how much devs are paid.

Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

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Just sent it to some developers who could really benefit from this! Please let us know when you have Codex and Gemini versions ready to rumble.

Sorry, it will be a while. We're currently building out enterprise features like SSO/SAML support, role based burn access, and a carbon offset marketplace. As you can imagine, we're burning a lot of tokens to get these out, but actual productivity isn't up as much as you'd think.

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Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

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Being an investor in Anthropic, Amazon must have a preferred billing rate, but others do not. No wonder their revenue shot up so much, so fast, because of BS goals like those.

Advanced Circular flows

If I own part of a company, and I spend money on their goods, and a result their revenues climb and consequently my valuation does too - then my firm value will be higher.

This would also explain the gung-ho approach. Some pretty devious financial engineering akin to arbitrage

Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

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Not just Amazon, too. It feels like all of big tech (and some smaller firms) have simultaneously gone insane. Imagine if your CEO woke up one day and told the company: "We need to encourage travel spending. Please book as many business trips as you can, and spend as much money as possible. Fly first class to our satellite offices! Take limos instead of Ubers! Eat at fine restaurants! Make sure you are constantly trav…

This is what inspired me to build my new CLI tool, Burn, Baby, Burn ( https://github.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn/tree/main ). (If you are a VP at Amazon, yes, I'll consider acquisition offers. I'm also working on an enterprise version of this with additional features.) Show HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151287

any plans for a distributed deployment via cloudflare works. I'm not sure this thing is powerful enough for my use case.

Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

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amazon needs to get the api gateway payload size fixed if they really want people to expand their bedrock use.

that and make sure the tools are actually up treating amazon internal as real customers.

its hard to stay excited about the tools when they can be down for a week because kiro launched.

Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

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This is what inspired me to build my new CLI tool, Burn, Baby, Burn ( https://github.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn/tree/main ). (If you are a VP at Amazon, yes, I'll consider acquisition offers. I'm also working on an enterprise version of this with additional features.) Show HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151287

any plans for a distributed deployment via cloudflare works. I'm not sure this thing is powerful enough for my use case.

Yeah, lots of enterprise features in the works, but first i need to raise money at a $1B+ valuation (this might seem high for a project that started 4 hours ago, but it's actually very low for the project that will soon be the #1 consumer of tokens on the planet)

Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

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Not just Amazon, too. It feels like all of big tech (and some smaller firms) have simultaneously gone insane. Imagine if your CEO woke up one day and told the company: "We need to encourage travel spending. Please book as many business trips as you can, and spend as much money as possible. Fly first class to our satellite offices! Take limos instead of Ubers! Eat at fine restaurants! Make sure you are constantly trav…

This is what inspired me to build my new CLI tool, Burn, Baby, Burn ( https://github.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn/tree/main ). (If you are a VP at Amazon, yes, I'll consider acquisition offers. I'm also working on an enterprise version of this with additional features.) Show HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151287

Won't the company audit the requests to AI and see you're sending a bunch of BS?

Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

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Happening at my company as well. This is an early symptom of the future devaluation of the skill of developing software. The value is going down because there is too little software developing work for the number of people who currently can do it.

amazon will never have that problem

theres so much work available that teams try to avoid taking stuff on as much as possible.

the bottleneck to building more is almost certainly the cross team coordination

likely the best place add agents too. an llm tpm would be super handy tool to scale amazon productivity, rather than coding agents.

Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

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any plans for a distributed deployment via cloudflare works. I'm not sure this thing is powerful enough for my use case.

Yeah, lots of enterprise features in the works, but first i need to raise money at a $1B+ valuation (this might seem high for a project that started 4 hours ago, but it's actually very low for the project that will soon be the #1 consumer of tokens on the planet)

recommend you extrapolate your value based on the token spend rates of FAANG; if you can spend 10x FAANG, then you should get atleast 10x valuation. godspeed.

Re: Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

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Only problem with this is that outcome metrics are still jira storypoints. Burning huge number of token while not improving the velocity is going to get you fired.

If we had a way of measuring velocity, we'd already be using that instead of tokens.

What do you mean? You get story points for free with jira. That’s like the one metric every place uses.
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