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Amazon's tech innovation died a while ago. It will continue to operate its successful business lines until it runs out of steam and shrivels up, just like IBM &

by lxe 3y ago

Amazon's tech innovation died a while ago. It will continue to operate its successful business lines until it runs out of steam and shrivels up, just like IBM & co. It will never catch up to things like AI and will fall behind. And it's not a bad thing for Amazon, at least for now. They are in a better position than Google, where they have a more diverse revenue stream, and can out-compete everyone else. They don't need to innovate.

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chuckadams 3y ago
> It will never catch up to things like AI and will fall behind Amazon Q is appearing all over the place in the AWS console. The AWS Jetbrains plugin also integrates Q, though I've never actually used it. I can't judge the quality of their AI offering, because as I said, I've not used it, but they're definitely not asleep when it comes to AI.
- x86x87 3y ago
  Q is shit. Everyone and their dog is doing genAI. We will look back at this in 5 years and have a good laugh about "ai"
  - chuckadams 3y ago
    I finally got around to using Q today. It's more awful than I could have imagined.
    - poundofshrimp 3y ago
      Amazon Q is powered by an LLM that is not very capable (there are no official benchmarks, AFAIK, but the community consensus seems to be that the level is akin to GPT 3.5). I wrote a Chrome extension that allows you to use GPT-4 Turbo from Chrome's side panel. It (optionally) gets context about your data if you choose to share your screen with it. https://github.com/petrgazarov/cumuli-aws-console-chat https://github.com/petrgazarov/cumuli-aws-console-chat