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Why AI Agents Are Tools, Not Junior Engineers: Vasu Raj Jain on Staying Technical as a Leader

with Vasu Raj Jain · Senior Software Engineer and Engineering Lead at Amazon Ads

Vasu Raj Jain is a Senior Software Engineer and Engineering Lead at Amazon Ads, where he owns the architecture for ad-serving infrastructure that handles over 50 million requests per second across Prime Video, live sports, shopping, and audio....

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Why AI Agents Are Tools, Not Junior Engineers: Vasu Raj Jain on Staying Technical as a Leader
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Federico Ramallo.

Founder of Density Labs, the AI engineering Partner for mid market US companies, since 2016. Author of The Invisible Distance, a field manual for engineering leaders running distributed teams.

PreVetted is the conversation behind the practice. Long form interviews with the operators, founders, and engineering leaders Federico actually runs into in the work, on what compounds when you ship across borders for a decade.