2026
- When the Agent Pays per Inference Call
TL;DR: In June I built a research agent that paid fixed prices for articles from a $1 session on a test network. AWS has now published a production case study for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments in …
- The Matryoshka of Humans in the Loop
TL;DR: Amazon Mechanical Turk closed on 30 September 2026. Its own tagline, “artificial artificial intelligence,” is a useful lens for what came after it, because the human-in-the-loop never left the …
- From Robot Soccer to the Agentic World Cup: Why Games Move AI Forward
🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video: a narrated screencast of this post. TL;DR: Twenty years ago, a year-long university project group I was part of built a team of soccer-playing cube robots …
- How My Setup Learns While You Sleep
TL;DR: The thing that makes an agent get better over time is a loop, and the loop is the same whether you buy it or build it: capture raw interaction, consolidate it on a schedule, and keep the lesson …
- I Rebuilt a Browser Fact-Checker on AWS, and AgentCore Web Search Was the Missing Piece
🎬 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 …
- Getting Paid by Agents: A Managed Paywall at the Edge
🎬 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- MCP Strategies on AWS, Part 1: Reading the Whole Guide
🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video with narrated diagrams. TL;DR: AWS published a Prescriptive Guidance paper, “Model Context Protocol strategies on AWS,” that organizes MCP into three …
- I Built the Agent That Pays — Here's What I Learned
TL;DR: A couple of weeks ago I wrote about HTTP 402 and why AI agents might finally activate the internet’s oldest unused status code. The post sparked a real discussion, so I built it: a research …
- 8 AWS Guides for Agentic AI — Mapped to the 4 Pillars That Get You to Production
The Gap Between Demo and Deployment TL;DR: AWS released 8 prescriptive guides for building production-ready agentic AI. This post maps each guide to the four pillars that get agents from demo to …
- The AI Track at AWS Summit Hamburg 2026: From Demo to Deployment
Last year, I wrote about the dedicated Gen AI track at AWS Summit Hamburg 2025. The response was overwhelming, the track was packed, conversations spilled into the hallways, and the Fischbrötchen at …
- MCP Sampling & Elicitation: When Servers Talk Back
From Request-Response to Collaboration When I wrote about the CLI vs MCP debate [1], I focused on the infrastructure patterns underneath. But MCP itself has been evolving, and the latest additions …
- Fischbrötchen and Failure Rates — I'm Speaking at AWS Summit Hamburg
Fischbrötchen and Failure Rates Last year, the AWS Summit left Berlin for Hamburg. After years of presenting at the Berlin Summit, I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about the move. Then I opened the …