Amazon HR Chief Says She Wrote 100,000 Lines of Code With AI
Amazon's HR leader, senior vice president Beth Galetti, published a first person essay on Amazon's own site on August 25, 2026, about writing code again with AI after 25 years away. Everything below comes from that post.
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Amazon's HR chief says she wrote one hundred thousand lines of code. She had not coded in twenty five years.
Beth Galetti leads Amazon's global human resources. She began her career as a software developer. A few months ago she started building again with AI.
She says she used Amazon's AI tool Kiro to build an app for an internal contest. Fifteen hundred teammates joined. One employee cut a four hour task to one second.
Every number here is Amazon's own. Line counts do not measure how useful software is. The essay ran on Amazon's blog, and Amazon sells Kiro outside the company.
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- It's been 25 years since I'd written a line of code.(Amazon's official post, I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI., published August 25, 2026)
- I started my career as a software developer in the transportation industry, building package tracking and international systems.(Amazon's official post, I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI., published August 25, 2026)
- Today I lead the company's global HR organization as senior vice president of People Experience and Technology.(Amazon's official post, I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI., published August 25, 2026)
- Then a few months ago, I decided to see what would happen if I started building again with AI.(Amazon's official post, I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI., published August 25, 2026)
- By the time I landed, I had built the submission app for what would become our internal team competition "Everyone Can Build."(Amazon's official post, I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI., published August 25, 2026)
- Kiro is where you go when you want to build something. You describe what you want in plain language, and Kiro helps you plan it, write it, and test it.(Amazon's official post, I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI., published August 25, 2026)
- We opened the competition to every employee on our team, and within just a few weeks, more than 1,500 people were building.(Amazon's official post, I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI., published August 25, 2026)
- One employee built an app that turned a nearly four-hour manual process into a one-second automated check, saving tens of thousands of hours annually.(Amazon's official post, I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI., published August 25, 2026)
- Since then, I've written over 100,000 lines of code with AI.(Amazon's official post, I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI., published August 25, 2026)
- We've also made both Quick and Kiro available outside of Amazon.(Amazon's official post, I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI., published August 25, 2026)