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Brad Porter: We Saw This With Robotics at Amazon Too

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This Anthropic engineer wrote the monumental blog post "Building Effective Agents". In just 14 minutes, he teaches you how to build AI agents the right way - more than most developers figure out in… | Linas Beliūnas | 107 comments Porter's observation that Amazon robotics teams faced the same adoption hurdles supports the practical agent-building lessons described in the Anthropic engineer's post.
Coasty: AI Computer-Use Agent API Lessons from years of physical robotics deployment at Amazon directly inform expectations for how computer-use agent APIs like Coasty will be adopted and constrained.

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First They Built a Secular Apocalypse Belief System. Now They Want Religious Authority. Amazon's robotics deployment history shows augmentation rather than annihilation of jobs, countering apocalyptic automation framing.

Aarthi Raju Amazon Quick productivity workflow LinkedIn Both posts come from Amazon insiders describing how internal teams are reshaping workflows through automation and AI tooling.
Joe Magerramov's blog: The Valley of Calm Magerramov's reflective essay on staying calm amid disruption echoes Porter's point that current AI anxieties mirror earlier robotics-era upheavals at Amazon.
Why some people mow a lawn better than others Both examine how humans perform physical/spatial tasks at scale and what lessons that holds for automation — lawn mowing as a CPP problem is directly analogous to robotics path planning challenges Amazon encountered

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LLMs can't jump Brad Porter's robotics-at-Amazon perspective implicitly involves the gap between language-level reasoning and physical manipulation — the 'LLMs can't jump' thesis about needing physical simulation maps onto robotics practitioners' observations about grounding AI in physical action.
Why some people mow a lawn better than others Brad Porter's robotics-at-Amazon context directly involves Coverage Path Planning — robotic vacuum and warehouse navigation are canonical CPP applications, making this human study foundational context for robotics path planning
Amazon's AI Shopping Assistant Transforms Retail with Conversational Search Brad Porter's Amazon robotics experience parallels this retail AI shift - both reflect Amazon's pattern of deploying emerging tech to transform its core retail/logistics operations

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First published:	Tuesday, 9 June 2026 at 12:00 UTC
Location:	https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brad-porter-cobot_we-saw-this-with-robotics-at-amazon-too-share-7470168784201273346-XpL8/
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