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Give Every Agent Its Own Computer: AWS Lambda MicroVMs

šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video where I walk through the post and the demo. TL;DR: AWS Lambda MicroVMs (launched 22 June 2026) gives every user, job, or AI agent its own isolated, statefu…

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Getting Paid by Agents: A Managed Paywall at the Edge

šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video with a narrated tour of the build. TL;DR: In Part 2 I built the buy side: an agent that autonomously pays per article over x402 with Amazon Bedrock AgentCo…

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MCP Strategies on AWS, Part 4: Governance in Code

TL;DR: The governance pillar of the AWS MCP guidance has the best whiteboard story in the whole document, so I made it runnable. The story: an admin asks an agent to clone a production database, the a…

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MCP Strategies on AWS, Part 3: Hosting, from Local to AWS

TL;DR: The AWS MCP guidance frames hosting as a ladder: local first, then remote, then a managed gateway. This post walks all three with code. The local rung is a stdio server with no auth, run as a s…

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Your Voice Clone Is Only as Good as the Reference Clip

šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video with narrated diagrams. TL;DR: A voice clone built by conditioning on a reference clip, Qwen3-TTS, in my case, inherits the clip’s cadence, pitch, and timb…

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MCP Strategies on AWS, Part 2: Tool Design in Code

TL;DR: The AWS Prescriptive Guidance paper on MCP gives the most useful, checkable rules in its tool-design section, so I wrote code to test them. A token-tax counter on a realistic 20-tool GitHub ser…

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From Columbo to Coworker

šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video with narrated diagrams. TL;DR: Running many interactive AI agents at once feels like Lieutenant Columbo lives in your terminal: every few minutes one turns…

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AI Content Pipeline Deep Dive (5/5): Publishing

TL;DR: Publishing isn’t just ā€œclick deploy.ā€ It’s image generation guided by performance data, LinkedIn teasers written from analytics insights, one-command deployment that handles auth, build, deploy…

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MCP Strategies on AWS, Part 1: Reading the Whole Guide

šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video with narrated diagrams. TL;DR: AWS published a Prescriptive Guidance paper, ā€œModel Context Protocol strategies on AWS,ā€ that organizes MCP into three pilla…

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CLI vs MCP, Part Two: The First Gap Just Closed

TL;DR: In March I argued the CLI vs MCP debate was the wrong debate, and that the CLI’s advantages were a temporary artifact of training data, not a law of physics. One of those advantages was multi-a…

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