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by simonw 6 days ago
Hah, this is pretty funny.

The official AWS account posted a thread to promote their podcast interview with Charity Majors: https://art19.com/shows/aws-for-software-companies-podcast/e...

But they forgot that users who are NOT signed into Twitter don't see threads at all, so it looks to anyone who's follows the link that they just took an official AWS position at odds with the entire industry that they're trying to make billions of dollars from.

Here's the full text of that thread:

> More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.

> The real bottleneck was never writing code. It's releasing it, debugging it, & keeping it running well. So when @Honeycombio CTO Charity Majors set a productivity target, she didn't chase 10x. She chose 2x, & built from there.

> Her team also skipped the mandates & built a set of AI values instead:

> "Every AI output has to have a human owner. If you don't want your name on it, it's probably not good work."

> Quality first, quantity second.

> Hear how @mipsytipsy built it on the AWS for Software Companies podcast.