normally that would have taken 40 or 50 people about a year to do. And we took five really smart people, AI forward thinking people building on agentic coding tools. And those five people rebuilt it in 65 days.
AmazonPublished by the organization itself (earnings call), no named author
Earnings call: earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), April 2026.
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Found in an Andy Jassy answer. The passage matches exactly: 'normally that would have taken 40 or 50 people about a year to do. And we took five really smart people, AI forward thinking people building on agentic coding tools. And those five people rebuilt it in 65 days.' The speaker is Jassy, the Amazon CEO. The source is a third-party transcript site, not Amazon's own.
Amazon, “earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site)”, earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), 2026-04. https://transcripts.platformaeronaut.com/transcripts/AMZN-1Q26-transcript Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/amazon-normally-would-taken-40-50-people-about-2026
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