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October 27, 2026 ai_technology payments

Amazon Tells Engineers Outcomes, Not Tokenmaxxing, Define AI Success

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For software engineers and managers, the way to determine good artificial intelligence (AI)-powered engineering practices is through long-term outcomes, Terk Terkowitz, vice president and distinguished engineer, Worldwide Amazon Stores, wrote in a memo shared with software engineers across Amazon and posted online Tuesday (Oct. 27). Terkowitz contrasted that metric with input metrics such as token usage or adoption […] The post Amazon Tells Engineers Outcomes, Not Tokenmaxxing, Define AI Success

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