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If you click this link expecting to read the memo you'll be disappointed as its 95% about what the author thinks about it.

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I was very glad for that! It sounds boringly useless, and the extensive response to it is much more valuable than yet another corporate memo of spendthrift-firemore.

Edit: Yeah, it’s just stack ranking by token/use pivottable; keep your work within 1.5 stddevs of everyone else’s or get targeted. Definitely missable.

> We recommend paying special attention to the 10th percentile (finding those teams who aren’t embracing AI effectively and understanding why) and the 90th percentile (finding those teams who are heavily using AI and understanding whether they’re seeing delivery increases to match) of AI adoption.

I'm not going to pass a judgement on whether this is a good or bad thing (disclosure I used to work there).

But this is very Amazon. If the leadership believes AI usage is critical then they will use a blunt stack rank to identify those who aren't using it.

I would be unsurprised to see this as an automated flag that managers have to explain during performance reviews (e.g. "this person was on Maternity leave for three months and therefore their usage is lower, but if you see XYZ data they are now on track for the months after they returned and are catching up as they adopt the new way of working")

They could at least post the actual memo... especially after a header that says "What's the thing say?". Bloviating clickbait nonsense like this doesn't deserve to be here.

We differ on that subjective opinion: I feel the memo is rather bloviating and the Register’s opinion post about it rather less so. (This tends to leave me incompatible with Upper Management, for good or ill.)

Welcome to the Register.

Here's the actual memo - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-softwar...

Welcome to corporate drivel. That memo says next to nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if it had been written by some LLM. "Write it in a grand style, like Kennedy's moon speech, but don't scare the share holders."

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