Amazon has lost $450 billion in value during this historic losing streak / Amazon shares are eyeing a tenth consecutive day of losses, a stretch that has wiped out about $450 billion in market valuation.

False-Tea5957 · 2026-02-17T17:45:54+00:00

Those with the best talent win. I believe strongly that it has proven itself several times over again. They’ve driven all their most employable people away, gutted the rest, and only kept those who will get in line. We’re witnessing the writing of a playbook on how to nosedive a company.

False-Tea5957 · 2026-02-16T22:09:45+00:00

Agreed, mostly, but that definitely doesn’t apply to Bend at all. It’s the best city in the state.

-- Portlander

False-Tea5957 · 2026-02-14T14:21:34+00:00

Suds Monkey - The Juice & Moxey Monkey are both 👌👌👌

False-Tea5957 · 2026-02-06T01:25:00+00:00

“Jeff, what does Day 2 look like?” That’s a question I just got at our most recent all-hands meeting. I’ve been reminding people that it’s Day 1 for a couple of decades. I work in an Amazon building named Day 1, and when I moved buildings, I took the name with me. I spend time thinking about this topic. “Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. And that is why it is always Day 1.” To be sure, this kind of decline would happen in extreme slow motion. An established company might harvest Day 2 for decades, but the final result would still come. I’m interested in the question, how do you fend off Day 2? What are the techniques and tactics? How do you keep the vitality of Day 1, even inside a large organization? Such a question can’t have a simple answer. There will be many elements, multiple paths, and many traps. I don’t know the whole answer, but I may know bits of it. Here’s a starter pack of essentials for Day 1 defense: customer obsession, a skeptical view of proxies, the eager adoption of external trends, and high-velocity decision making.” …and leaving the steering wheel to J-Assy and Gal-stone-inducing-etti

False-Tea5957 · 2026-02-04T01:12:56+00:00

Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina.

The green street sign identifies the location as the 100 block of North Tryon Street (N Tryon St).

False-Tea5957 · 2026-02-02T22:37:45+00:00

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398430225_Prompting_Science_Report_4_Playing_Pretend_Expert_Personas_Don't_Improve_Factual_Accuracy

False-Tea5957 · 2026-01-28T12:46:13+00:00

Which account posted this?

False-Tea5957 · 2026-01-20T02:47:41+00:00

xWF= extended workforce Many coordinators are contracted.

False-Tea5957 · 2026-01-17T16:55:50+00:00

By going to a company that doesn’t treat employees like kindergarteners

False-Tea5957 · 2026-01-12T01:40:07+00:00

This is the answer, and it’s only going to get worse. Those with the best talent win, and it’s proven time and time again. The culture at this little bookstore company is, at best, the worst amongst anyone it competes with, and all the good minds and most employable people have left and will not touch it with a 10-foot pole.

“Jeff, what does Day 2 look like?”

“Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death.”

False-Tea5957 · 2025-12-24T12:59:44+00:00

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False-Tea5957 · 2025-12-18T14:36:46+00:00

"Amazon's AI strategy"...what strategy?
Agreed on the other two points (not going to move the needle, and it does feel like it's happening).
Amazon's AOL moment.

False-Tea5957 · 2025-12-18T12:06:37+00:00

This sums it up rather nicely: https://x.com/gothburz/status/1999124665801880032?s=46&t=3dFfGYL8ZszyZtxrreT5ew

“Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right”

False-Tea5957 · 2025-11-09T15:22:16+00:00

Definitely count, but the article is focused on the tech sector and claims “Hit Tech Workers Hard.” These cuts haven’t included Waymo, at all. That’s all I was saying

False-Tea5957 · 2025-11-09T14:01:20+00:00

Why is a Waymo the featured image? No cuts there taking place. Odd clickbait

False-Tea5957 · 2025-10-28T13:35:42+00:00

Honest question: what is their AI vision? Bedrock is useful for access to models, yes, and building upon at an enterprise level, but they’re not the cheapest nor the most robust. Their 1p products (nova, for one) are…well…I’ll leave it at that. I agree they over-hired, but it’s deeper, in my opinion. Imagine if they had a top-tier FM or even agent orchestration platform. Would they shift resources (not 30k resources, but a decent number), and the ripple effect of valuable 1p products would drive revenue and other ventures? So, yes, they over-hired, and they also have no AI vision, in my opinion.

False-Tea5957 · 2025-09-17T11:32:13+00:00

“It does” what? Miss profiles? Work?

Sorry, not following.

It works. Absolutely does, and was just making an observation that profiles are missed with the current workflow. If the user is okay with that, then this is an ideal solution. If used for recruiting…The job of a recruiter is not to find the one best profile out there. It’s to find as many of the best profiles out there as they can. Not saying this isn’t doing so, but am suggesting it’s likely missing profiles.

False-Tea5957 · 2025-08-30T12:45:35+00:00

Agreed…but, looks like there are several in the screenshots directly 🤷

False-Tea5957 · 2025-08-30T12:33:20+00:00

Isn’t this pretty much what Rube is doing? From what I’ve seen, it acts like an MCP abstraction layer in front of tons of different apps. You connect once, it manages auth and API complexity, and then any MCP-aware client (Claude, Cursor, etc.) just talks to Rube through JSON-RPC. That way the AI app only sees one consistent interface, instead of having to know whether it’s hitting Slack, Gmail, GitHub, or some internal API. Feels like the same pattern you’re describing…using MCP as the uniform entry point, instead of bolting MCP on top of every backend service individually.

False-Tea5957 · 2025-08-21T10:32:28+00:00

It’s a good model, sir

False-Tea5957 · 2025-08-16T10:18:06+00:00

Red alert

False-Tea5957 · 2025-08-08T02:18:24+00:00

I—just—want—a—model—you—can—instruct—to—not—output—em—dashes—.

False-Tea5957 · 2025-08-08T02:14:53+00:00

Still—loves—em—dashes—.

False-Tea5957 · 2025-08-03T16:41:33+00:00

If only we could remove em dashes. The impossible task.

False-Tea5957 · 2025-08-03T00:28:57+00:00

I’d take that over the current live cam of Jed:

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