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    "id": "amazon-stores-pilot-50-teams-half-under-3x-deployment-velocity-2026",
    "text": "They watched 50 teams that were totally … distribution of early career folks, mid-career senior engineers, and that worked on existing systems. … And they watched them for the better part of last year, and they found something super interesting. They found that there was a big difference in the productivity gains that they saw between half of the teams and the other half. And in this case, they used a productivity metric of deployment velocity to production. … And they saw that for half of the teams, they achieved less than 3X increase.",
    "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": "5:59",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI"
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        "definition": "teams in the Amazon Stores pilot, a normal mix of seniority working on existing systems",
        "level": "n/a"
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        "value": 3,
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        "definition": "upper bound: half of the teams achieved less than a 3X increase in deployment velocity to production",
        "level": "n/a"
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    "context": "Liguori is describing a pilot run by Amazon Stores, which she says covers Amazon.com, its retail websites and its physical stores.",
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    "Organizations flagged aiVendor sell AI tooling and have a reason to publish flattering numbers.",
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