🎬 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…
AgentCore
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2026
From Robot Soccer to the Agentic World Cup: Why Games Move AI Forward
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 AgentCo…
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 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 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 pilla…
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 age…
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 deplo…
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 t…
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 cha…
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 Generati…