Amazon's 6-page memo culture 'nuked' by AI: employees now tag memos 'AI;DR'
emax · x · 2026-10-19
A long-read recounts how Amazon's six-page memo culture is breaking down: an L7 PM presented a six-pager he'd clearly never read, senior engineers now tag suspicious docs "AI;DR" (AI, didn't read), and Bezos's claim that narrative memos guarantee clear thinking no longer holds in the AI era.
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