Tag: Amazon
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Young people are cheaper and complain less
Yes: The company has cut roughly 30,000 corporate jobs since last October. But: Amazon, he noted, is hiring 11,000 interns and new grads this year. Resulting business value: And when you talk about entry-level jobs, number one, they’re your cheapest employees. They haven’t learned bad habits. You can teach them the culture, they’re willing to…
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
I have been on vacation for a little while, in Finland for the third time. Finland feels different than the other parts of Europe I have been to. Perhaps it’s because I spent my time there in rural Finland. But it also feels like most of Finland is rural. In that way, it feels a…
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Tokenmaxxing at Amazon, Potato Stamp Fonts, and Tax Code Hacking – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Elon’s OpenAI lawsuit, build-vs-buy for agentic AI, and rethinking observability. From: Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question what can my font do? Related to your interests Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores – workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools – Tokens are…
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Where are the enterprise AI apps? Part n + 1
Outside of programming, there’s still a dearth of enterprise AI apps, it seems. Palo Alto’s CEO: “Consumers are far outstripping enterprise for the moment, but we expect enterprise will surely and slowly get on that bandwagon,” he said on the company’s Q2 earnings call. … “Right now … tell me how many enterprise AI apps…
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Relevant to your interests, Friday
A Coxswain on Your Shoulder – AI as executive coach. Primary tip: listen more before you ask questions. Big Blue Poised To Peddle Lots Of On Premises GenAI – Welcome to the last 18 months of labor-intentive services – “Legacy delivery models focused on bums-on-seats aren’t relevant anymore, and services firms must reinvent themselves to…
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Amazon Should Buy Anthropic, AI Doctors, Metaverse RIP
Original Content Amazon should buy Anthropic. I wasn’t really sure what hardned images were, let alone “distroless,” so Tony and I were lucky to get William on this week’s Tanzu Catsup to sort it out. We also discuss how it fits into platform engineering. If you can’t be bothered, here’s an excerpt on optimizing Helm…
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Winning in AI, story mode
Winning in AI is now defined as having a great chat app, not the AI infrastructure running that app. Amazon (AWS) has no chat app (that I know of, which is the point!), so people don’t think they’re winning. If AWS did have an app, and evolved it as a product, they would be at…
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Relative to your interests, Monday
Is Your AI Assistant Creating a Recursive Security Loop? AI security concerns and opportunities for 2026 – Tanzu security maestro David Zendzian rattles it off. Amazon gives managers a new way to spot employees who aren’t spending enough time in the office – Enterprise Nanny-state. What does the platform engineer do when the amount of…
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Amazon’s enterprise AI strategy, explained by Neil Ward-Dutton
Neil Ward-Dutton, an IDC analyst focused on AI, automation, data and analytics, said three announcements on the first day of the conference were of note. “AWS AI Factories is one,” he said. “These are AWS AI infrastructure and software stacks, built and managed by AWS, but deployed in customers’ own datacentres. “These are, at least…
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Amazon’s culture went the wrong way
Big layoffs at Amazon corporate: “The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially driven, and it’s not even really AI-driven — not right now, at least,” [the Amazon CEO] said. “Really, it’s culture.” The culture wasn’t right: his comments Thursday framed the layoffs as a cultural reset aimed at keeping the…
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🤖 Senators Slam Amazon, Big Tech for AI Layoffs Followed by H-1B Hiring Spree
Lawmakers are pressing Amazon, Meta, Google, and other major tech firms for allegedly laying off U.S. workers in the name of AI automation, then turning around to hire thousands of lower-cost H‑1B visa holders. The clash comes as Trump’s new $100,000 visa fee and a potential freeze on student work authorizations threaten to upend how…
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Blade Runner makes its live-action return next year – 2026 in Amazon.
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AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is ‘dumbest idea’ – ‘Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has suggested firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”’
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Amazon bought Whole Foods eight years ago — now it’s bringing it deeper into the fold – This still seems like a weird acquisition. Amazon doesn’t seem to divest things, but this feels like it’d be on the top of the list. Returning packages there is cool, but that could just be a partnership.
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Incremental AI is better than civilization changing AI
Incremental AI For every AI skeptic and alarmist, there are ten AI dreamers convinced AI will change civilization. In the business world, this fuels high valuations and premature optimization through layoffs or sweeping business changes. Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, listed out all sorts of AI things Amazon is doing. To me, the list suggests AI…
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Amazon’s CEO says their AI tool has saved them a crazy amount of time – This oddly specific, and a big deal if applicable to other organizations. // ‘The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what’s typically 50 developer-days to just a few hours,” he wrote. “We estimate this has…
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Cloud Foundry in Action: Real Customers Stories from Cloud Foundry Day – ”We run a tremendous number of applications on top of Cloud Foundry. The ones that really impress me might surprise some people. It’s not just Black Friday sales but also the Amazon Prime events. When these events kick off, there’s an incredible surge…
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Amazon Isn’t Killing Just Walk Out But Rather “Pushing Hard” On It – Hmm, hopefully we’ll see some nuanced corrections in all them news outlets…
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Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction
Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction Opening question Or, here if that’s your thing. Shaking the snow globe When you watch the making of kubernetes documentary, you’ll notice a strange character. Time and time again Amazon is referred to directly or indirectly. But, Amazon’s spokesperson in the documentary is a silent,…
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_Working Backwards_, recent book on how Amazon runs.
Notes: central is thinking about product features, not business. The business funds the product, the customer value – it’s the McGuffin that you careful guide to being cash flow. The question here is to find other org.s that have adopted abs adapted the practices successfully, or not. the advice at the end is pretty straightforward…
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