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You can safely say this for any user-facing product Amazon has. Look at the Prime TV interface, the Amazon Music app (and their "free" tier), etc. Everything
by therippa 3y ago
You can safely say this for any user-facing product Amazon has. Look at the Prime TV interface, the Amazon Music app (and their "free" tier), etc. Everything they put out is third-rate, the only thing they know how to do well is AWS, which keeps the lights on.
- danielbln 3y agoThe Alexa app is horrid as well, the audible app is VERY third rate, the Kindle app is... alright. What is pretty great is the kindle, my current gen kindle (the one with the large screen and the warm light) I cherish.
- eigenvalue 3y agoI don't find the Amazon Fire interface to be nearly as horrible and frustrating as Alexa is. What I don't understand is how it is so bad. You could literally just glue together the tiny.en Whisper model and the Mistral7b LLM and add some APIs and get something that would work so much better than Alexa for most tasks. I feel like I could do that in well under a month and replicate the most essential functionality, but with something that actually works well. So what exactly have the hundreds of highly compensated devs been doing for years there? It's truly mind-boggling to me.
- therippa 3y agoI was an SDM at Amazon up until last month, I can tell you that the engineers are busy arguing over minute details and choice of wording in design docs. That's essentially the job.