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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: AI assistant Amazon Q can save about 4,500 developers a year

2024-08-24

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IT Home reported on August 24 that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy posted on his LinkedIn homepage yesterday that after integrating Amazon's generative AI development assistant "Amazon Q" into the internal system, Amazon Q The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 has been reduced from around 50 developer days to just a few hours, saving an estimated 4,500 developer years of work.

“For software development teams, one of the most tedious (yet critical) tasks is updating the underlying software. It’s not new feature work, and it doesn’t feel like you’re driving the experience forward. Amazon Q, our GenAI software development assistant, is trying to bring some light to this heavy lifting.”

As previously reported by IT Home, on November 29 last year, Amazon launched a new chatbot called Amazon Q at the company's annual AWS Reinvent conference. It is designed to help businesses and employees better utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Amazon Q is a new generative AI-assisted service that helps employees quickly use the company's data and expertise to get answers to questions, solve problems, generate content, etc., which can be customized according to the business of corporate customers.

Amazon Q Code Transformation analyzes existing code, suggests changes, and implements them. It updates package dependencies, modifies outdated and inefficient code, and integrates security practices.