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What We Learned (and Fixed) About Quality at Higher Velocity", "type": "post", "date": "2026-09-16", "publisher": "Spotify engineering blog", "url": "https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/9/ai-changed-how-spotify-builds-what-we-learned-and-fixed-about-quality-at-higher-velocity" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "prs-merged", "value": 17000, "unit": "count", "period": "August 2026", "definition": "total merged changes (PRs) in the month", "level": "n/a" }, { "metric": "prs-merged", "value": 8100, "unit": "count", "period": "August 2025", "definition": "total merged changes (PRs) in the month", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/spotify-total-merged-changes-more-than-doubled-year-2026" }, { "id": "shopify-first-11-days-running-dependency-workflow-backlog-2026", "text": "In the first 11 days of running the dependency workflow, the backlog of open issues fell by about 70%.", "speaker": "Erin Son", "role": "Senior Engineer", "organization": "Shopify", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "How River takes security work from a fix to merge", "type": "post", "date": "2026-09-02", "publisher": "Shopify engineering blog", "url": "https://shopify.engineering/river-vulnerability-remediation" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "measuring-impact", "security" ], "functions": [ "security", "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "output-change", "value": -0.7, "unit": "share", "period": "first 11 days of the dependency workflow, as of 2026-09-02", "definition": "backlog of open dependency issues after River's dependency workflow started", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/shopify-first-11-days-running-dependency-workflow-backlog-2026" }, { "id": "linear-number-issues-pull-request-attached-someone-engineering-2026", "text": "the number of issues with a pull request attached by someone in an engineering, product, or design function has grown sevenfold", "speaker": null, "role": null, "organization": "Linear", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Linear (own site)", "type": "post", "date": "2026-08-26", "publisher": "Linear (own site)", "url": "https://linear.app/now/sharing-growth-with-the-people-building-linear" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-31" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "measuring-impact", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "company-wide" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "output-change", "value": 7, "unit": "ratio", "period": "since the start of 2026", "definition": "issues with a pull request attached, across customer workspaces", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/linear-number-issues-pull-request-attached-someone-engineering-2026" }, { "id": "uber-all-led-twice-number-lines-code-per-2026", "text": "And all of this led to twice the number of lines of code per engineer year over year.", "speaker": "Uday Kiran Medisetty", "role": "Distinguished Engineer", "organization": "Uber", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Agentic SDLC at Uber: Building Blocks for Uber's Software Factory (talk, AI Engineer World's Fair 2026)", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-08-21", "publisher": "AI Engineer (conference organizer) YouTube channel", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-YSUHo6Lk" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "measuring-impact", "ai-written-code" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "output-change", "value": 2, "unit": "ratio", "period": "year over year (as of the talk)", "definition": "lines of code per engineer, year over year", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/uber-all-led-twice-number-lines-code-per-2026" }, { "id": "bcg-platinion-organizations-running-model-report-3-5x-2026", "text": "Organizations running this model report 3 to 5x productivity gains. Legacy backlogs that once ran to thousands of work days shrink to hundreds. 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"share", "period": "per engineer per day, after Claude Code adoption", "definition": "increase in merged pull requests per engineer per day when Claude Code was adopted in the Engineering org", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/anthropic-roughly-corroborates-67-increase-merged-pull-requests-2025" }, { "id": "greptile-median-user-writes-50-prs-month-p90-500-2026", "text": "Today, … used by several tens of thousands of engineers every single week to review all of their code. So we also know, generally speaking, the number of pull requests that each of these people are writing. The median … user writes 50 pull requests a month, so call it about … per work day. The 90th percentile writes 500 pull requests per month. That is a drastic difference between the median and the P90. The P99 is in the thousands of pull requests.", "speaker": "Daksh Gupta", "role": "Co-founder", "organization": "Greptile", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "AI-Generated Code Is Already Competing With Human Code", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-09-27", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "10:00", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=474j-n1Ltxc" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "ai-written-code" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "median-prs-per-user-month", "value": 50, "unit": "prs", "period": "per month, as of the talk", "definition": "median pull requests written per month by users of Greptile, the speaker's company (unit of work: PRs)", "level": "unclear" }, { "metric": "p90-prs-per-user-month", "value": 500, "unit": "prs", "period": "per month, as of the talk", "definition": "90th-percentile pull requests written per month by users of Greptile (unit of work: PRs)", "level": "unclear" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/greptile-median-user-writes-50-prs-month-p90-500-2026" }, { "id": "figma-docs-slack-emails-three-four-times-as-long-say-same-2026", "text": "all of a sudden all the design docs and all the Slack messages and all the emails have gotten three or four times as long and … gotten two or three times as many emails and they say basically as much as they did before.", "speaker": "Eyal Blum", "role": "Software Engineer", "organization": "Figma", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage)", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-08-28", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "04:16", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bn0xro2ol8" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "ai-across-the-company" ], "functions": [ "engineering", "company-wide" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "design-docs-slack-emails-length-increase", "value": 3.5, "unit": "x", "period": "as of the talk (three or four times as long)", "definition": "increase in the length of design docs, Slack messages and emails at the speaker's organization, as stated; the speaker says they say 'basically as much as they did before'", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/figma-docs-slack-emails-three-four-times-as-long-say-same-2026" }, { "id": "figma-plan-week-aligned-teams-agent-overnight-six-weeks-5x-2026", "text": "I aligned with three other teams for another week on that and then I just sent it to an agent to implement overnight and it came back, this is probably from two … not one, but it's basically six weeks of coding work … only one week. So that's where I get … 5X speed up if I include the review cycle at the end…", "speaker": "Eyal Blum", "role": "Software Engineer", "organization": "Figma", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage)", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-08-28", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "11:20", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bn0xro2ol8" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "coding-speedup-planned-agent-work", "value": 5, "unit": "x", "period": "one example plan, as of the talk", "definition": "speed-up the speaker reports for his own planned work, six weeks of coding work done by an agent overnight against about two weeks of planning and alignment, including the review cycle, as stated", "level": "human-approves" } ], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/figma-plan-week-aligned-teams-agent-overnight-six-weeks-5x-2026" }, { "id": "figma-playwright-agent-explore-code-big-win-productivity-2026", "text": "So for example, when … playwright … came out instead of having humans navigate the code now, the agent can explore the code. That was a big win unlock for productivity in a lot of our team.", "speaker": "Eyal Blum", "role": "Software Engineer", "organization": "Figma", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage)", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-08-28", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "05:20", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bn0xro2ol8" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "testing" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/figma-playwright-agent-explore-code-big-win-productivity-2026" }, { "id": "figma-week-writing-detailed-plan-agent-implements-restores-joy-2026", "text": "And so it's not uncommon to spend a week writing a very detailed plan, making all the decisions, flushing it out, iterating, sending it out to teammates to review. And then only when it's read and you've … out all the decision, … to the agent, the agent will send it back to you when it's implemented … has been really successful also in accelerating and also really restoring some of the joy into the development process.", "speaker": "Eyal Blum", "role": "Software Engineer", "organization": "Figma", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage)", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-08-28", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "08:07", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bn0xro2ol8" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/figma-week-writing-detailed-plan-agent-implements-restores-joy-2026" }, { "id": "boundary-ab-test-tool-calls-billions-of-tokens-programming-language-2026", "text": "You could figure out which ones took less tool calls, … which one made less errors, which one produced the correct outcome, and deterministically know what's going on. The point is you can start building data-driven systems without ever writing a single line of code. … in order to build a programming language, it wouldn't have taken eight people. It wouldn't have taken less than two years. It would have taken hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of man hours, and then you would still have a broken system. And today, we can just spend billions of tokens and make it work, and we can make it stable.", "speaker": "Vaibhav Gupta", "role": "Co-founder and Chief Executive", "organization": "Boundary (BoundaryML)", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "Fighting Slop with Slop", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-07-31", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "6:00", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMiyLItEtLA" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "measuring-impact", "developer-productivity", "ai-cost-and-spend" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "Gupta is comparing what building a programming language would have taken before with what it takes the team now.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/boundary-ab-test-tool-calls-billions-of-tokens-programming-language-2026" }, { "id": "boundary-architecture-md-small-stable-layers-compiler-2026", "text": "We built an architecture.md file. Instead of using … MD, just pick something that every model can just understand. This file has to be incredibly small, and it can only have things that will not change for months or for years. In our case, it's the layers of the compiler. … So now we have standards so anyone can use whatever they want.", "speaker": "Vaibhav Gupta", "role": "Co-founder and Chief Executive", "organization": "Boundary (BoundaryML)", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "Fighting Slop with Slop", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-07-31", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "2:10", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMiyLItEtLA" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "autonomy-and-oversight", "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "Gupta is describing how the team sets shared standards when engineers choose their own AI tools.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/boundary-architecture-md-small-stable-layers-compiler-2026" }, { "id": "boundary-engineer-built-partial-c-compiler-processes-evolve-agent-speed-2026", "text": "When we started building BAML, I didn't think it would be possible to build some of the software we did. And just yesterday, one of … engineers built a partial C compiler, purely in BAML. … Our processes have to evolve if we're going to ship at agent speed.", "speaker": "Vaibhav Gupta", "role": "Co-founder and Chief Executive", "organization": "Boundary (BoundaryML)", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "Fighting Slop with Slop", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-07-31", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "19:47", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMiyLItEtLA" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "Gupta is describing what the team has been able to build in BAML, the programming language it makes.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/boundary-engineer-built-partial-c-compiler-processes-evolve-agent-speed-2026" }, { "id": "boundary-no-code-reviews-parallel-no-ai-standardization-2026", "text": "We do no code reviews. We require every engineer to work on things in parallel, and we have no standardization how people do AI.", "speaker": "Vaibhav Gupta", "role": "Co-founder and Chief Executive", "organization": "Boundary (BoundaryML)", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "Fighting Slop with Slop", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-07-31", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "0:26", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMiyLItEtLA" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "code-review", "autonomy-and-oversight", "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "Opening of a conference talk by the chief executive of Boundary, the company that builds the BAML programming language, on how its team works.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/boundary-no-code-reviews-parallel-no-ai-standardization-2026" }, { "id": "reddit-job-changed-harness-engineers-now-system-produce-verify-code-2026", "text": "The job changed, and most of us didn't even notice, we're harness engineers now. Our work is the system that helps produce and verify the code. The constraints, the gates, the skills, the verification.", "speaker": "Andrew Orobator", "role": "Senior Software Engineer", "organization": "Reddit", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Scale the Judgment, Not the Model", "type": "talk", "date": "2026-06-30", "publisher": "AI Engineer (YouTube)", "locator": "02:06", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MudaeKdBSk" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "autonomy-and-oversight", "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "The speaker is a Reddit Android engineer speaking about engineers in general, not describing a Reddit policy.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/reddit-job-changed-harness-engineers-now-system-produce-verify-code-2026" }, { "id": "block-square-features-sellers-waiting-months-shipped-days-2026", "text": "On the Square side, we took a list of features sellers had been waiting on for months and our engineers shipped them in days. Builderbot handled the scaffolding and the repetitive work, and our engineers made the decisions that shaped the product.", "speaker": "Brad Axen", "role": "Head of AI Capabilities", "organization": "Block", "aiVendor": false, "work": { "title": "Block rolls out BuilderBot, a new suite of AI-native tools that changes the way we ship", "type": "post", "date": "2026-06-17", "publisher": "Block (own site)", "locator": "What it means for how we build", "url": "https://block.xyz/inside/block-rolls-out-builderbot-a-new-suite-of-ai-native-tools-that-changes-the-way-we-ship" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "coding-agents", "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": null, "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/block-square-features-sellers-waiting-months-shipped-days-2026" }, { "id": "cognition-merged-prs-grew-7x-engineering-headcount-2026", "text": "it grew like 7X over, the last, I think it was, two months, three months, something like that. And then you see our engineering headcount growth. It’s, gone up by, 10% or something.", "speaker": "Walden Yan", "role": "Co-founder and Chief Product Officer", "organization": "Cognition", "aiVendor": true, "work": { "title": "The Age of Async Agents: Cognition's Walden Yan and OpenInspect's Cole Murray", "type": "podcast", "date": "2026-05-28", "publisher": "Latent Space", "locator": "00:03:01", "url": "https://latent.space/p/cognition" }, "grade": "C", "verification": { "status": "verified", "reviewedOn": "2026-11-01" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "measuring-impact" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "merged-prs-growth", "value": 7, "unit": "x", "period": "about two to three months, as recalled by the speaker", "definition": "Growth in Cognition's internal merged PRs, per the speaker's recollection of an internal graph", "level": "n/a" }, { "metric": "engineering-headcount-growth", "value": 0.1, "unit": "share", "period": "same period", "definition": "Approximate, 'or something'", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": "Walden Yan was describing an internal graph of Cognition's merged pull requests, which he said had grown 7X; the passage is the continuation of that answer.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/cognition-merged-prs-grew-7x-engineering-headcount-2026" }, { "id": "amazon-90-percent-used-kiro-not-the-tools-the-way-they-worked-2026", "text": "90% of these teams used Kiro, among other internal tools that we have, and what they found was it wasn't about the tools, it was about the way that they worked. The teams that achieved step function improvements intentionally changed the way that they worked, and the other simply kind of sprinkled Kiro and some of the other tools that we have on top of their existing way of working.", "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": "7:08", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "reported" }, "topics": [ "adoption-and-usage", "developer-productivity" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "tool-usage-share", "value": 90, "unit": "percent", "period": "Amazon Stores pilot", "definition": "share of the pilot teams that used Kiro, among other internal tools, as the speaker states it", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": "Liguori is explaining what separated the Amazon Stores pilot teams that saw a median 4.5x improvement from the rest.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/amazon-90-percent-used-kiro-not-the-tools-the-way-they-worked-2026" }, { "id": "amazon-bedrock-30-people-18-months-six-people-76-days-2026", "text": "And sometime last year, we knew, or I say we, but the bedrock team knew that they were going to need to build a new inference data plane. But they had estimated it at 30 people over 18 months. This is a big, big service, and it was … take time to build the new one, migrate customers over, migrate models over, and they decided to take a step back. They took six people and they built it in 76 days with …", "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": "2:35", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "reported" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "estimated-team-size", "value": 30, "unit": "people", "period": "estimate made last year, as described in 2026", "definition": "people the Bedrock team estimated for a new inference data plane, over 18 months", "level": "n/a" }, { "metric": "actual-team-size", "value": 6, "unit": "people", "period": "built in 76 days", "definition": "people who built the new inference data plane in 76 days, per the speaker", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": "Liguori is describing the Bedrock team (Amazon's model hosting service) and its build of a new inference data plane.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/amazon-bedrock-30-people-18-months-six-people-76-days-2026" }, { "id": "amazon-decision-making-new-bottleneck-code-one-to-two-months-2026", "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", "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": "18:45", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "reported" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "adoption-and-usage" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "Liguori is describing new organizational bottlenecks Amazon sees when coding is faster.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/amazon-decision-making-new-bottleneck-code-one-to-two-months-2026" }, { "id": "amazon-median-4-5x-productivity-pilots-felt-10-to-20-2026", "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", "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": "1:11", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "reported" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "measuring-impact" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "productivity-gain-multiple", "value": 4.5, "unit": "ratio", "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)", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": "Liguori is describing how pilots with Amazon teams compare with her own earlier experience of AI coding assistants.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/amazon-median-4-5x-productivity-pilots-felt-10-to-20-2026" }, { "id": "amazon-prime-video-ten-day-sprint-90-weeks-down-to-24-2026", "text": "So another experiment that I want to talk about is an experimental sprint that was done in the Prime Video Organization. They took a 10-day sprint and they … experiment where they put, again, six engineers in a room and they let them go wild with Kiro. They brought down the project delivery time estimate from what was going to be 90 weeks down to 24, based on all of the progress they had made in this 10-day sprint.", "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": "4:05", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "reported" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "measuring-impact", "coding-agents" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "delivery-estimate-before", "value": 90, "unit": "weeks", "period": "before the 10-day sprint", "definition": "project delivery time estimate before the sprint", "level": "n/a" }, { "metric": "delivery-estimate-after", "value": 24, "unit": "weeks", "period": "after the 10-day sprint", "definition": "revised project delivery time estimate, based on progress made in the sprint", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": "Liguori is describing an experimental sprint in Amazon's Prime Video organization.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/amazon-prime-video-ten-day-sprint-90-weeks-down-to-24-2026" }, { "id": "amazon-slowing-down-to-speed-up-productivity-went-down-2026", "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", "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": "9:39", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlWNihgdjI" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "reported" }, "topics": [ "developer-productivity", "adoption-and-usage" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [], "context": "Liguori is describing the second of five habits that Amazon teams in the pilots and sprints built, according to the interviews she cites.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/amazon-slowing-down-to-speed-up-productivity-went-down-2026" }, { "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" }, "grade": "B", "verification": { "status": "reported" }, "topics": [ "measuring-impact", "developer-productivity", "adoption-and-usage" ], "functions": [ "engineering" ], "figures": [ { "metric": "teams-in-pilot", "value": 50, "unit": "teams", "period": "watched for the better part of last year", "definition": "teams in the Amazon Stores pilot, a normal mix of seniority working on existing systems", "level": "n/a" }, { "metric": "deployment-velocity-gain-half-of-teams", "value": 3, "unit": "ratio", "period": "Amazon Stores pilot", "definition": "upper bound: half of the teams achieved less than a 3X increase in deployment velocity to production", "level": "n/a" } ], "context": "Liguori is describing a pilot run by Amazon Stores, which she says covers Amazon.com, its retail websites and its physical stores.", "url": "https://the-ai-record.com/passages/amazon-stores-pilot-50-teams-half-under-3x-deployment-velocity-2026" }, { "id": "uber-back-2024-we-were-seeing-engineers-2026", "text": "Back in 2024, we were seeing that engineers would get their first review within three hours. Now, in 2026, that has grown to nine hours, in addition to all of the volume changes. 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