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by isengard3000 15 days ago
Amazon employee here.

- Can confirm that channel exists and it's great. Rofl every day for all the stupidity happening in the company.

- Despite many seeing Amazon as outsider for AI, it's actually a great place to work (if not fired). We have free access to all frontier models, including today's Mythos release for all employees.

- Every model available on Bedrock is available for free with no caps. I think it's because these models are deployed on trainium chips which is essentially free for Amazon.

- Claude code and Codex are available unlimited for employees.

- For this one I will be bitten, but I actually like Kiro CLI. It's powered by the same Anthropic/OpenAI models. It's a bit easier to understand for me than CC and surprisingly does a better job at writing research papers.

- Amazon Quick, alternative to Claude Cowork, also has some nice features like in-browser presence so you don't have to copy/paste content from the web.

- I personally haven't seen a push to use AI at all costs. Yes, there are many internal tools being developed (e.g. meshclaw) but no one tracks their adoption for redundancy purposes. I think leaders are pretty consistent with what they communicate externally (e.g. hiring of juns).

2 comments

Reminds me of Memegen from Google, the one thing I miss about working there.

Memes were top shelf; absolutely masterclass

I thought the channel is strictly for being sad that Kinesis in IAD is down again.