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    "id": "amazon-bedrock-30-people-18-months-six-people-76-days-2026",
    "text": "And sometime last year, we knew, or I say we, but the bedrock team knew that they were going to need to build a new inference data plane. But they had estimated it at 30 people over 18 months. This is a big, big service, and it was … take time to build the new one, migrate customers over, migrate models over, and they decided to take a step back. They took six people and they built it in 76 days with …",
    "speaker": "Clare Liguori",
    "role": "Senior Principal Engineer, AWS",
    "organization": "Amazon",
    "aiVendor": true,
    "work": {
      "title": "From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team",
      "type": "talk",
      "date": "2026-08-28",
      "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)",
      "locator": "2:35",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI"
    },
    "grade": "B",
    "verification": {
      "status": "reported"
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      "coding-agents"
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        "value": 30,
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        "definition": "people the Bedrock team estimated for a new inference data plane, over 18 months",
        "level": "n/a"
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      {
        "metric": "actual-team-size",
        "value": 6,
        "unit": "people",
        "period": "built in 76 days",
        "definition": "people who built the new inference data plane in 76 days, per the speaker",
        "level": "n/a"
      }
    ],
    "context": "Liguori is describing the Bedrock team (Amazon's model hosting service) and its build of a new inference data plane.",
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    "Every passage is reproduced word for word from the cited source.",
    "Check the verification status: \"reported\" means not yet confirmed by an independent second reader.",
    "Organizations flagged aiVendor sell AI tooling and have a reason to publish flattering numbers.",
    "An empty result means the archive holds nothing on it, not that nobody has said anything."
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