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    "text": "And completely anecdotally based on my own experience, I've really only felt maybe 10 to 20% more productive with all of these phases that have come before. But now inside of Amazon, we've been running pilots with different teams across the company, and we've been seeing a median of 4.5x productivity improvement and sometimes more than 10x.",
    "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": "1:11",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI"
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        "value": 4.5,
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        "period": "Amazon pilots with teams across the company, as described in 2026",
        "definition": "median productivity improvement across the pilot teams, as the speaker states it; the measure is not defined in this passage (the speaker later names deployment velocity for the Amazon Stores pilot)",
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    "context": "Liguori is describing how pilots with Amazon teams compare with her own earlier experience of AI coding assistants.",
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