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Hey everyone! My wife and I have had a new baby, so I'm taking a break from social media. I will be spending all this time reading up on AI... lol, not really, gonna throw my phone off a bridge and pretend computers don't exist. Blogging paused, podcasting is recorded and won't be interrupted. ✌️

Article from the inimitable Alex Moore is now free: How to build an agentic email bot on AWS AgentCore. Covers full architecture, Microsoft 365 integration, Graph API delta queries, and the AWS components behind an email-native AI agent. www.letsdodevops.com/p/agentic-ai...

🔥Agentic AI Email Bot on AWS Bedrock AgentCore: Full Architecture and O365 Integration (1/2)🔥

aka, yes your inbox can have a robot in it now

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The new Sonnet 5 model is pretty sure everyone is incompetent or lying. Finally, the real developer experience.

Sonnet 5 is out, and it's better at coding and worse at cybersecurity. So... yay?

Got a robot mower. I think it's sick?

If you use the Atlassian MCP in SSE mode, it's about to be deprecated You can check with: > claude mcp list If you see it, you need to remove it: > claude mcp remove atlassian And add the new http one: > claude mcp add --scope user --transport http atlassian mcp.atlassian. com/v1/mcp

AgentCore: Deployment, Operations, and Lessons Learned (4/4) 🔥 aka, wish I'd known that earlier Now free for everyone. Terraform patterns, container operations, debugging headaches, observability, costs, and the lessons learned running AgentCore in production. buff.ly/pM26weS

Enterprises with zero data retention aren't going to be Fable-ing today unfortunately . I'm talking about me. 😭

99% uptime is the new 99.99% uptime

Article now free: AgentCore: Memory and Tools (3/4)🔥 This article covers how we gave Vera (an AWS AgentCore, Strands-based AI bot across Slack, Teams, Email) persistent memory. buff.ly/YptyCio

New article! Designing specialized sub-agents with claude code - model selection, tool scoping, and output contracts. This article covers how to build focused agents with the "right" model, the tools they need, and set outputs you need back. Article is paid, but not for you:

Let's Do DevOps

DevOps + AI = <3. Trusted by readers from Amazon, Intel, HashiCorp, Boeing, GitHub, SAP, Fortinet, Sandia National Laboratories, Zscaler, Anduril. Click to read Let's Do DevOps, by Kyler Middleton, a…

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ICYM: I recently sat down with @nedinthecloud.com and @letsdodevops.com to have a lovely and far-ranging chat about my upcoming book, The Psychology of Software Teams, the bad beliefs in software that hold us back, and how I got into this work! packetpushers.net/podcasts/day...

D2DO302: Not Just Brains in Jars: The Human Psychology of Developers | Packet Pushers

Ned and Kyler are joined by Dr. Cat Hicks to discuss her new book: The Psychology of Software Teams. Together they discuss the psychology of software development, how negative stereotypes of developer...

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Fantastic fun with Ned!! > Hosts Ned and Kyler compare notes on everything they’ve been doing with AI, including the successes they’ve enjoyed and headaches they’ve suffered building and implementing AI agents. buff.ly/lg1927N

> 👏 Great news: your application was approved for another year in the AWS Community Builders program Yay! I'm glad to stay in this great community (though we all miss Jason Dunn, who was the heart and soul of the program).

I wonder if I can get my AI diagnosed with ADHD like me...

New article: teaching Claude Code to run a full SDLC workflow autonomously. This one covers the orchestrator pattern behind our multi-agent AWS AgentCore workflow: implement, review, deploy to DEV, validate in Slack, deploy to PROD, and validate again. It's paid, but not for you: buff.ly/sK3mEsQ

I joined Ned & Kyler to talk about writing a book on the psychology of software teams, "the feelings stuff", and my thoughts about the ways I'm seeing developers grapple with AI and learn to learn 🫶 Listen here! packetpushers.net/podcasts/day...

D2DO302: Not Just Brains in Jars: The Human Psychology of Developers | Packet Pushers

Ned and Kyler are joined by Dr. Cat Hicks to discuss her new book: The Psychology of Software Teams. Together they discuss the psychology of software development, how negative stereotypes of developer...

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$MSFT trying to compete with Claude's numbers by having anyone who does anything in VSCode co-tag their commits as written with Copilot. Huge backlash from the community, they were forced to revert by community pressure.

Enabling ai co author by default by cwebster-99 · Pull Request #310226 · microsoft/vscode

Visual Studio Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode development by creating an account on GitHub.

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AgentCore MCP Gateway article is now free. If you’ve been wiring up MCP tools one by one, you’ve probably felt the pain—different auth flows, scattered secrets, and a growing pile of integration code just to make everything work together. buff.ly/raMo5VI

Did you know a lot of places assume married couples are male/female pairs? I bought a house, and the Title company's notary had to get out the white-out to fix the doc we signed!

What if an LLM lived on an ASIC and was absolutely BLAZING FAST? Taalas and Ljubisa Bajic did just that, and you can use it today. Check out chatjimmy[.ai] to try it now!! Check out the image for an example - it generated that response in 6 ONE THOUSANDTH of a second!!

New blog post: Agentic AI Email Bot on AWS Bedrock AgentCore: Building the Thread, Sending the Reply, and Operating in Production (2/2) Focuses on what happens after the email hits the worker. And the code is now open sourced!! Link in the article. buff.ly/kO022PU

🔥 This very popular article is now FREE: AWS AgentCore Agentic Slack Bot - Full Architecture and Code (1/4). Moved Vera from the Lambda “invoke and die” model to a warm, long-lived AgentCore app built for agent workflows buff.ly/glbZD3h

When your mom is into computers you get the jokes early 😆

Post is now free: migrating VeraResearch to first-class MCP tool support in Strands. Running multiple MCP servers caused tool name collisions and a pile of custom wrapper code to manage prefixes and filtering. This post shows how we deleted that complexity using native MCPClient buff.ly/fV2InLi

Claude, I'm gonna take that as a yes

Post is now free on how to build audit logging across AI bots using python and AWS cloudwatch. Agentic bots make many calls per request, so audits get messy fast. This post shows the simple audit layer we added user identity, question, response, sessionID for easier debugging. buff.ly/2TZtqEt

I'm a huge nerd for Andy Weir books, I've read The Martian ~12 times and Hail Mary 3 times. Cannot wait to see this live!! Anybody else going?

I had an unreasonably fun time with Chandana talking about: - How to get started to tech - Programming vs Infra background to DevOps - The rise of AI in DevOps - How to excel at work and life in the age of AI instability It was a great convo, hope you enjoy.

Skills You Need to Transition into DevOps in 2026

In this interview, we sit down with Kyler to discuss her unconventional path to becoming a devops engineer and leader. If you feel stuck in your current IT role or want to know how to start a tech…

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