Amazon rewrites its software engineering playbook for an era when AI writes the code

Amazon Web Services established Velocity Labs in April as a rapid-innovation team designed to explore underexplored areas of agentic AI and deliver prototypes faster than traditional product teams. The group of 35 engineers and scientists operates with cross-disciplinary collaboration, with engineers engaged in research and scientists performing engineering work. Led by AWS VP Marc Brooker, the team exemplifies Amazon's broader effort to restructure organizations for effective collaboration with AI coding tools that now write most code for the majority of Amazon developers.

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