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    "text": "And I like to define what we've been calling frontier developers inside of Amazon by three behaviors that I've been seeing. One is hands off coding, frontier developers write maybe … of the code that they produce. The rest is agents. The second is that they interact with their agents infrequently. They'll aim to get their coding assistant to run for up to hours at a time without their intervention. And third is that they minimize idle time. These frontier developers tend to run multiple agents in parallel, … through a backlog of tasks.",
    "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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