{"id":992995,"date":"2026-02-17T12:15:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992995"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:45:56","slug":"amazon-wants-80-of-its-developers-to-use-ai-for-coding-at-least-once-a-week-but-theres-one-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/amazon-wants-80-of-its-developers-to-use-ai-for-coding-at-least-once-a-week-but-theres-one-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon wants 80% of its developers to use AI for coding at least once a week, but there&#8217;s one condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is pushing hard to make AI-assisted coding an everyday habit across the company. The target is clear\u201480 per cent of developers should be using AI for coding tasks at least once a week, according to the Financial Times. But the company isn&#8217;t leaving the choice of tool up to its engineers. It wants them on Kiro, its in-house AI coding assistant that launched in July 2025, and it&#8217;s actively discouraging everything else.<\/p>\n<p>An internal memo viewed by Reuters last November laid it out plainly: &#8220;We do not plan to support additional third-party AI development tools.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is pushing hard to make AI-assisted coding an everyday habit across the company. The target is clear\u201480 per cent of developers should be using AI for coding tasks at least once a week, according to the Financial Times. But the company isn&#8217;t leaving the choice of tool up to its engineers. It wants them on Kiro, its in-house AI coding assistant that launched in July 2025, and it&#8217;s actively discouraging everything else. An internal memo viewed by Reuters last November laid it out plainly: &#8220;We do not plan to support additional third-party AI development tools.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}