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    "text": "Previously, writing code manually was the bottleneck. I find that with an Amazon, we've found the speed of decision making becomes a new bottleneck. … When it used to take nine to 12 months to build a new product, it didn't matter so much in the overall wash of things if it took two months to make the decision to build the product and then two months to approve the launch. But now, those are the bottlenecks. … Often, I find that frontier engineering teams spend more time making decisions than they do writing code.",
    "speaker": "Clare Liguori",
    "role": "Senior Principal Engineer, AWS",
    "organization": "Amazon",
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    "work": {
      "title": "From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team",
      "type": "talk",
      "date": "2026-08-28",
      "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)",
      "locator": "18:45",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI"
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    "context": "Liguori is describing new organizational bottlenecks Amazon sees when coding is faster.",
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