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    "text": "The second one is slowing down to speed up. In almost every team that was interviewed, they reported that their productivity actually went down, as they intentionally adopted a new way of working. That's counterintuitive, right? You have to do intentional engineering work before you're gonna see that hockey stick curve in productivity improvement.",
    "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",
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    "context": "Liguori is describing the second of five habits that Amazon teams in the pilots and sprints built, according to the interviews she cites.",
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