I’m sure Amazon has enough actual customer data to make their product decisions based on what moves the most volume.

While they obviously want a high quality product, no outages, a responsive system etc, I don’t think they necessarily understand why you need to avoid creating god-objects, need to reason about abstractions, etc.

For Kiro, I agree with you, it seems like wasted effort and Anthropic / OpenAI are miles ahead in their tooling.

I think Kiro might have some “first mover” advantage internally, but CC feels better to use.

Google has such poor UX flows at times, it doesn’t surprise me.

They definitely get something barebones up and running, but it's far from a fully fledged application.

What I probably miss the most about EU (apart from family) is good food.

I did work on some cool medical device and ML tech back in EU, associated with a university and later a start up. But regulation became a PITA.

But I have no clue how far along vaccines are, and even if they exist how feasible it would be to use in e.g Congo. Similar to how we can treat tuberculosis, yet many people keep dying of it.

Of course at some point the 'benefit' is outweighted by the 'negatives', e.g people making up work. Tokens used is about as useful a measure of productivity as 'hours in office'.

EDIT: My use-case still have relatively low token usage though lol

She is a great doctor and thankfully does this due diligence. But it gives me the impression this is forced on doctors without even them wanting this.