From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team

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When features that took two weeks now ship in an afternoon, the bottleneck shifts from writing code

to making decisions. Frontier teams have discovered this firsthand, achieving 3-10x productivity

gains by fundamentally rethinking how developers work with AI agents. This talk covers the practices

that separate frontier teams from those who merely "sprinkle" AI on their existing workflows:

running agents asynchronously for hours, investing in comprehensive agent steering files, enabling

local integration testing for agent self-correction, and automating everything from coding to

operations to documentation. You'll learn how teams at Amazon slowed down to speed up, the temporary

productivity dips they accepted, and the organizational changes required to sustain this velocity.

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