You cant deliver and have quality engineering teams, while you spent the last 15 years treating your employees under a frugal way, and being the biggest H1B IT employer in the US.
I'm surprised with Amazon and Meta in terms of AI. Less surprised with Google, I think Google has a very specific niche they picked. If you really think about it, you don't have to be the absolute best, you just have to keep refining your model for efficiency and cost, and I think that's Google's true goals and secret sauce. Google will snowball into place. They're also used more than most people realize.
Then there's Mark Z who is throwing away piles of money, but nothing to show for it other than letting people easily hack his social media sites? I really hope they never let an AI just send someone a link like that again? If you're at the point where a person is taking over an account, have a human review it, check for red flags like a VPN.
Any text forums these days has the grokenspiels played by sloppenheimers. It feels like a literature cross between Punk'd and Crank Yankers but stars clanker wankers rather than TV and movie celebrities.
Amazon’s attempts at AI tooling are just far too behind to be taken seriously. Kiro, Quick whatever, the Alexa updates. All just a hot mess. Amazon’s own employees appear to have abandoned Kiro en mass when allowed to just use Claude.
Amazon should just focus on being a utility compute provider. Anything they try to do on top of that is just consistently second rate.
I've never worked in a big corporate environment, so I'm always surprised that these companies allow employees to mock their own products/managers/bosses.
(Not saying it shouldn't be allowed, just that it's surprising based on how controlling I'd expect a big corp like Amazon to be.)
The non-programmers at amazon I know are all just getting onto kiro. I guess there’s two versions of kiro(?) one aimed at devs and the other more web/mcp friendly. Ic and managers are still just wading into the waters and still haven’t learned that token dashboards are snake eating its own tail endgame for these groups.
From the outside it looks like a hot mess of many competing teams trying to become the chosen one for all of Amazon’s ai use. As a result it’s a confusing mess of tools that don’t last very long and creates tons of churn and confused employees who learn new tools as they're killed.
Definitely enjoying watching the chaos unfold from a distance at these trillion dollar businesses
- Can confirm that channel exists and it's great. Rofl every day for all the stupidity happening in the company.
- Despite many seeing Amazon as outsider for AI, it's actually a great place to work (if not fired). We have free access to all frontier models, including today's Mythos release for all employees.
- Every model available on Bedrock is available for free with no caps. I think it's because these models are deployed on trainium chips which is essentially free for Amazon.
- Claude code and Codex are available unlimited for employees.
- For this one I will be bitten, but I actually like Kiro CLI. It's powered by the same Anthropic/OpenAI models. It's a bit easier to understand for me than CC and surprisingly does a better job at writing research papers.
- Amazon Quick, alternative to Claude Cowork, also has some nice features like in-browser presence so you don't have to copy/paste content from the web.
- I personally haven't seen a push to use AI at all costs. Yes, there are many internal tools being developed (e.g. meshclaw) but no one tracks their adoption for redundancy purposes. I think leaders are pretty consistent with what they communicate externally (e.g. hiring of juns).
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 37.7 ms ] threadThere should be a rule about this kind of posts. If there isn't already.
https://archive.ph/1YRCE
Here is what I learned:
- AWS had an in-house LLM tool that was terrible they tried to use for a while
- A lot of them still use Kiro
- Claude Code is currently the de-facto standard
- They're in the process of getting some custom Codex variant that doesn't phone-home and is audited approved
- There's no mandated organizational standard for what exact tools to some, various teams have different levels of adoption and stacks
- No org-wide/team-wide conventions for Claude Code
- They do have token budgets
- There's an intenral push for something called "Agent Spaces" which was described to me as a sort of Lovable/Bolt-type thing if I understood it right
I can't validate all of this and I might have misremembered, but just in case anyone else finds it interesting.
https://cloud.google.com/customers/qualia
Then there's Mark Z who is throwing away piles of money, but nothing to show for it other than letting people easily hack his social media sites? I really hope they never let an AI just send someone a link like that again? If you're at the point where a person is taking over an account, have a human review it, check for red flags like a VPN.
Related:
Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400311
Amazon should just focus on being a utility compute provider. Anything they try to do on top of that is just consistently second rate.
(Not saying it shouldn't be allowed, just that it's surprising based on how controlling I'd expect a big corp like Amazon to be.)
300 IQ move. Nobody will be able to trace it back to sources now.
From the outside it looks like a hot mess of many competing teams trying to become the chosen one for all of Amazon’s ai use. As a result it’s a confusing mess of tools that don’t last very long and creates tons of churn and confused employees who learn new tools as they're killed.
Definitely enjoying watching the chaos unfold from a distance at these trillion dollar businesses
- Can confirm that channel exists and it's great. Rofl every day for all the stupidity happening in the company.
- Despite many seeing Amazon as outsider for AI, it's actually a great place to work (if not fired). We have free access to all frontier models, including today's Mythos release for all employees.
- Every model available on Bedrock is available for free with no caps. I think it's because these models are deployed on trainium chips which is essentially free for Amazon.
- Claude code and Codex are available unlimited for employees.
- For this one I will be bitten, but I actually like Kiro CLI. It's powered by the same Anthropic/OpenAI models. It's a bit easier to understand for me than CC and surprisingly does a better job at writing research papers.
- Amazon Quick, alternative to Claude Cowork, also has some nice features like in-browser presence so you don't have to copy/paste content from the web.
- I personally haven't seen a push to use AI at all costs. Yes, there are many internal tools being developed (e.g. meshclaw) but no one tracks their adoption for redundancy purposes. I think leaders are pretty consistent with what they communicate externally (e.g. hiring of juns).