Amazon tells software engineers what really matters as AI ushers in the era of the 'Renaissance Developer'
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Amazon is explicitly telling engineers to ignore AI usage vanity metrics and optimize for business outcomes—expect more large orgs to follow with similar guidance. If you’re leading an engineering team, reframe your AI OKRs around shipped value and defect rates, not prompts, tokens, or “assistant adoption.”
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