Your AI Corrections Are Worth More Than Your AI Outputs

Your AI corrections are worth more than your AI outputs.

Amazon just proved it. After their AI tool wiped a production environment, they didn't chase better models. They put senior engineers on every change. Every "no, that's wrong" creates a constraint that didn't exist before. The code is disposable. The rejection compounds.

My son is learning to cook eggs. He's watched me do it plenty of times and he's loving the independence of doing it himself. But the learning isn't in the watching. It's in the corrections. The fishing out bits of shell, dialing in the right amount of salt, knowing when the cheese goes on. He'll get there. But not from the recipe. From the reps and the "almost, try this instead."

That's what Amazon's senior engineers are doing now. That's what your team should be doing with every AI output. The prompts are the recipe. The corrections are the cooking.

Everyone's chasing better prompts. The winners are building systems to capture every correction.