How frontier teams are reinventing AI-native development

AWS says the largest gains from AI in software development come from teams that redesign how they work around AI agents, not from teams that treat AI as a faster way to type. Across more than 50 internal teams studied, the 25 groups that adopted both new tools and new practices reached a 4.5x median productivity gain, and some passed 10x in deployment velocity. AWS calls these its frontier teams and lays out five habits behind the results.