I'm starting to sense a divide in the tech industry:
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what
Example of the impact of "good" AI:
Speeding up processes that seemed IMPOSSIBLE to speed up in the past! So challenging timelines from pre-AI.
These will include doing away w decades-long assumptions like "it takes at least 2-3 days for Legal to review contracts over $100K"
Our sales operations team built Shared Bots that help reps move deals faster.
Account Intel Bot updates the CRM after calls. Quote Bot prepares proposals and order forms. Deal Bot reviews non-standard terms and routes exceptions for approval.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
It's a saying that comes to my mind when I get close to giving up on something new/difficult/different
Found myself using it a lot more, recently. Just because my old routines no longer work as well, and I'm trying new ones
Amazon's leadership is very good at writing, but you still need to read between the lines.
What I read between these lines:
Engineers who are not "product engineers" (aka eng + PM interest) and don't like to be customer-facing will not have a future inside of Amazon
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