{
  "id": 16821926,
  "title": "Amazon Tells Engineers Outcomes, Not Tokenmaxxing, Define AI Success",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/amazon-tells-engineers-outcomes-not-tokenmaxxing-define-ai-success",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-27T23:43:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/amazon-tells-engineers-outcomes-not-tokenmaxxing-define-ai-success/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "For software engineers and managers, the way to determine good artificial intelligence (AI)-powered engineering practices is through long-term outcomes, Terk Terkowitz, vice president and distinguished engineer, Worldwide Amazon Stores, wrote in a memo shared with software engineers across Amazon and posted online Tuesday (Oct. 27). Terkowitz contrasted that metric with input metrics such as…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}