"Our developers shipped 79% of the auto-generated code reviews without any additional changes," Jassy explained. "This is a great example of how large-scale enterprises can gain significant efficiencies in foundational software hygiene work by leveraging Amazon Q."

Running an automatic tool on a stack that is self-contained is, of course, going to be easier.

This boast of Amazon's is like saying an economy car is as good as Rolls Royce when sitting at a stop light.

Great. However, Amazon customers customize their work to be compliant with Amazon. Every enterprise-grade software I've worked on has had complex deployments where we need to customize the software to fit with the customer's existing data; and modify our processes to match their workflows to say nothing about bridging to new systems, data types and workflows.

>I’ve said this before: Boeing is literally too important to shut down.

They're like Enron-important, you mean.

The sum total of the impact of my work is to shave fractions of a millisecond off of submillisecond trades so that banks can make even more money. If I do a great job, the guys owning the hedge fund who own our company get to make more payments on their Mercedes.

The silicon seems capable -- though the big grill on the back tells me heat will be a factor -- but we're back to the Tube and no place for all the local storage volumes. I was hoping for a mini-tower like the Quadra 700.

I need a data truck. The silicon's powerful but I'm not a fan of cluttering a workspace with many bricks on strings.

'Everyone else is wrong about all things' gets me suspicious. This may be well intentioned but we actually know a lot about these subjects and it may be newcomer-itis thinking he's discovered something all the smart people missed.

Did you know he directed the Enterprise fly by scene? What a pity. His vision defined so much of what the future looks like to us.

Pity.