Quoting Terk Terkowitz
If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can explain where AI does not yet help their work is demonstrating the judgement we are
If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can explain where AI does not yet help their work is demonstrating the judgement we are asking for.
– Terk Terkowitz, An update from Amazon engineering leadership on the role of the developer in the age of AI
This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 28th October 2026.