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    "text": "90% of these teams used Kiro, among other internal tools that we have, and what they found was it wasn't about the tools, it was about the way that they worked. The teams that achieved step function improvements intentionally changed the way that they worked, and the other simply kind of sprinkled Kiro and some of the other tools that we have on top of their existing way of working.",
    "speaker": "Clare Liguori",
    "role": "Senior Principal Engineer, AWS",
    "organization": "Amazon",
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      "title": "From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team",
      "type": "talk",
      "date": "2026-08-28",
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      "locator": "7:08",
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    "context": "Liguori is explaining what separated the Amazon Stores pilot teams that saw a median 4.5x improvement from the rest.",
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