Amazon wants 80% of its developers to use AI for coding at least once a week, but there's one condition

Amazon is mandating its developers use its in-house AI coding tool, Kiro, aiming for 80% weekly adoption. This directive faces internal resistance, with 1,500 employees advocating for rival Claude ...

Amazon engineers grate against internal limits on Claude Code

The tech giant's internal policy promotes an in-house tool called Kiro over Anthropic's Claude Code. Some Amazon engineers ...

Amazon Engineers Revolt Over AI Tool Restrictions

Amazon engineers are pushing back on limits to Claude Code as internal guidance steers teams toward Kiro for production work and tighter oversight.
Yahoo

Amazon CodeWhisperer is now called Q Developer and is expanding its functions

Pour one out for CodeWhisperer, Amazon's AI-powered assistive coding tool. As of today, it's kaput -- sort of. "CodeWhisperer is where we got started [with code generation], but we really wanted to ...
InfoWorld

Amazon Q Developer review: Code completions, code chat, and AWS skills

Amazon Q Developer works well for completing lines of code, doc strings, and if/for/while/try code blocks, but can’t generate full functions for certain use cases. When I reviewed Amazon CodeWhisperer ...
CNET

Amazon Q Is an AI Tool That Handles Workplace Queries and Writes Code

Lisa joined CNET after more than 20 years as a reporter and editor. Her coverage of AI ranged from a hands-on with OpenAI's empathetic Advanced Voice Mode to in-depth explainers on LLMs, ...
AOL

I quit Amazon after I cracked the code for promotions. It took me 14 years to become a principal engineer — here's how.

Steve Huynh transitioned from creative writing to programming, landing a contract role at Amazon. He faced an eight-year struggle to get promoted from senior to principal engineer. Huynh achieved his ...