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  1. Vector Search, From the Whiteboard to the Cloud

    šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video: a narrated screencast of this post. TL;DR: Vector search is easy to picture on a whiteboard: turn text into a list of numbers, then find the stored items …

    AI Ā· RAG Ā· VectorSearch Ā· AmazonBedrock

  2. The Other Half of Two-Pizza

    TL;DR: Werner Vogels’ ā€œA return to two-pizza cultureā€ describes how a coding agent let one scientist prototype Amazon Quick Desktop overnight, and how ownership culture carried it from there. Reading …

    AgenticAI Ā· Kiro Ā· Productivity Ā· WorkingBackwards

  3. Own Your Real Estate: Why I Stopped Renting My Audience

    TL;DR: If you publish on platforms you don’t control, you don’t own your audience, you rent it, and the landlord can change the locks anytime. The fix is POSSE: publish the canonical copy on a site yo…

    ContentStrategy Ā· OwnedMedia Ā· POSSE Ā· Blogging

  4. Agent Memory Is a Spectrum, Not a Switch

    šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video: a narrated screencast of this post. TL;DR: ā€œMy agent keeps forgetting thingsā€ is usually not a model problem. It’s a memory-architecture problem. Agent me…

    AI Ā· AgentMemory Ā· Architecture Ā· AgenticAI

  5. Scrawl: Building a Tool for Humans and Agents

    šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video with a narrated walkthrough. TL;DR: I watched someone present across half a dozen apps, drawing on screen to make their points, and I wanted the same thing…

    MCP Ā· AgenticAI Ā· DeveloperTools Ā· macOS

  6. I Rebuilt a Browser Fact-Checker on AWS, and AgentCore Web Search Was the Missing Piece

    šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video if you’d rather watch than read. TL;DR: I came across an open-source browser extension that fact-checks videos and live streams in real time, and I wanted …

    FactChecking Ā· AmazonBedrock Ā· AgentCore Ā· WebSearch

  7. 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…

    AWSLambda Ā· Firecracker Ā· AIAgents Ā· Serverless

  8. 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…

    AIAgents Ā· AgenticCommerce Ā· HTTP402 Ā· AWSWAF

  9. 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…

    MCP Ā· AgenticAI Ā· Security Ā· AgentCore

  10. 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…

    MCP Ā· AWSLambda Ā· AWSCDK Ā· AgentCore