Hear @clare.dev, Senior Principal Software Engineer @awscloud.bsky.social & @kateholterhoff.com discuss @kiro.dev for this RedMonk New Builders conversation. They chat about Kiro's Vibe and Spec modes, the importance of requirements, as well as Kiro's roadmap. redmonk.com/videos/tnb-c...

Kiro: A new agentic IDE https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560662

Thrilled for the launch of @kiro.dev today! We started with two main ideas that led to Kiro's spec-driven development features: 1) AI can help us build better products through rapid prototyping 2) Devs can declare their app's requirements to get better results from AI, close to production-grade code

Memories of a wonderful summer in Banff

This was such a great sequence of passing. It’s going to tough to do this on an 11v11 pitch in the Fall season youtube.com/shorts/04kwN...

"Building an Intelligent AWS Cloud Engineer Agent with Strands Agents SDK" by Vivek V #strands-agents #agentic-ai #amazon-bedrock #aws-cdk #mcp

Excited to open source Strands Agents today! LLMs have gotten so good at reasoning and tool use that building model-driven agents with Strands is easy AND powerful Models + Tools = 🧬 Read more: aws.amazon.com/blogs/openso...

Fun chat about Strands Agents, I love it when the space station is involved in demos www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ausm...

MCP all the things aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops...

Today we released SWE-PolyBench, a multilingual benchmark for AI coding agents. The scientists who developed the benchmark blogged about it aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops...

The vast majority of MCP servers today aren't actually servers 😱 They run as a child process and communicate over stdio, a bit awkward for distributed systems trying to use MCP. Backend apps can now run existing stdio MCP servers in Lambda functions with this new library: github.com/awslabs/run-...

Tottenham defends worse than my kids team.

How was that a straight red?

Rollover time youtube.com/clip/Ugkx6LS...

Oh Arsenal!

So good

Probably one of my favorite pictures. The Oculus makes for some good ones.

Kyle Walker looks done

Dusted off the work laptop for the first time in over 10 days. My January calendar is already full 🤔

The sun came out on NY Eve so we went and trained a bit (followed by some yummy tacos).

The kid and I managed to get a little birding in during the holiday break.

Laporta needs to go. This is a disgrace.

These were some of my favorite photographs of 2024

There's something to be said about having some of our key devices hardwired (Roon Server, Music Streamer, TV Streaming, NAS). Everything is just snappy

It’s been a while

Today on the sidelines

RIP: youtu.be/MxF2U5tRarU?...

This is more my sons wrapped than mine (since I use Roon and Tidal more) but it may as well be mine

Enjoy the retirement Nicko McBrain. Up the irons!

My alternative career

Just made a re:Invent video browser using Amazon Q Developer in 5 minutes. Have fun! riv24-video-browser.pages.dev

This season is bizarre.

The new Nova Lite model is pretty damn good. I would have killed for a model like this last year at this price point! Shown are some Ideogram images for OCR tests.

Thanks @werner.social for the shoutout in the reInvent keynote today! To learn more about serverless prompt chaining, check out the guide in this repo: github.com/aws-samples/...

Come learn cognitive techniques and tools for reducing time to resolution. We'll talk instrumentation, logs, telemetry correlation, and I'll show how Amazon Q Developer for troubleshooting operational incidents helps you move toward resolution even faster. Thursday 2pm! #AWSReInvent #observability

Swami: “while the Wright Brothers can’t take all the credit for their 12 seconds of success ..” Me: Would have gone viral on TikTok

We often talk about agents as specific things. Today, that's somewhat useful. I think of agents the way we think about services in a distributed system, each performing specific tasks. We are still learning how to build these new distributed systems with components implemented as agents.

I spend some of my time working on how we integrate automated reasoning into Q Developer's gen AI capabilities. My colleague Anoop puts it best about why this is so important theaiinnovator.com/executive-qa...

These three new agents for Q Developer are pretty cool! I've been seeing some surprisingly and delightful results in my internal testing. I'll be demoing live later today for the AWS on Air show. Can't wait to show this off!

One of the best part about being part of this organization is working with a team that's constantly innovating. This includes a team of scientists that continue to equip the Q Dev Agent with more capabilities, e.g. new tools to search, navigate, understand, and modify code with precision.

After yesterday's announcements at re:Invent, it was nice to see these all pop up in my IDE.

It's Day 2 of re:Invent. Amazing to see Andy being back on the stage and Matt Garman acing it :) I’m proud of what my team and I worked on that was launched today. I’m also very excited for how our new Amazon Nova models are going to change the game. My takeaways from this morning’s keynote ⬇️

If you want to try the new Nova models, look no further than Partyrock partyrock.aws/u/partyrock/...

Waiting for coffee shops to open. Might as well take some pictures

The most important re:Invent question. When and where should I pick up my badge

I think I get two of these every week. The best one was “remember me from xyz’s wedding”. I know someone named xyz, but have definitely not been to their wedding but I can see people responding to that. consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-ale...

Kid decided to get pneumonia. We were both so excited (yes he likes “old people” music

Glad that penalty got saved. Madrid have no business being in this game right now. Liverpool really should have a bigger lead (and need it because ... Madrid)

Someone sent a repo they had created to a Slack channel over the weekend. Notes like the one on this repo are going to become a lot more common. In this case the repo was built using the Amazon Q agent for software development (/dev)