Amazon CEO Claims Six Engineers Replaced Forty, World Wonders Where People Went
KEY POINTS
- ā¢Amazon CEO Andy Jassy praised a six-person engineering team for developing the 'Mantle' AI engine in just 76 days.
- ā¢The company cut 14,000 jobs in October 2024 and another 16,000 in January 2025 as part of a restructuring plan.
- ā¢Jassy emphasized the importance of a flat organizational structure to boost speed and adaptability amid ongoing uncertainty.
Andy Jassy, Amazon's big boss with a workforce eyeball-boggling 1.5 million strong, proudly announced that a petite squad of six tech wizards whipped up 'Mantle,' a shiny new AI engine, in 76 daysāno bats, no spanners, just brains. Compare that to the usual "team of 40" taking a year; Amazon's shortcut apparently freed up 34 people to update their rĆ©sumĆ©s (or buy couches). All this magic is linked to Amazon Bedrock, which herds sophisticated AI models like Anthropic's Claude and Meta's Llama. Meanwhile, in true startup fanboy fashion, Jassy celebrated shedding whopping 30,000 jobs since October 2024 to become 'flat' and 'fast,' like a pancake at a budget brunch. Amidst corporate contortions, he also reminisced about zigzagging from sports production to investment banking before joining Amazon in 1997, admitting the path was less a straight line, more a drunken squiggle, a lesson he's engraving into company culture: love ambiguity or get lost.
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(1 of 3)Six engineers replace 40 and slash tens of thousands of jobs for speed. Progress or just an elaborate excuse for Amazon's group therapy session about ambiguity? Spoiler: no one's comfortable.
Turns out the future of work at Amazon means fewer people, more AI, and plenty of buzzwords to keep everyone confused.
Amazon flattened 30,000 jobs faster than you can say 'startup culture,' but hey, at least the company moves really fast now.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 4/9/2026 | Author: Lina Batarags,Theron Mohamed
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