[nradov]

If it's stupid and it works then it's not stupid. Sometimes executives have to use blunt instruments to turn around the culture of a hidebound large organization. When Jeff Bezos sent his 2002 API mandate it might have seemed stupid at the time and yet it worked.

https://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifes...

[bigstrat2003]

Stupid things that work are still stupid. There's a reason we have the expression "a broken clock is right twice a day". Moreover, evidence so far seems to suggest that this AI push is not working for Amazon.