2026-02-05 Thu

• Tools in the AI Era

  • fluid.sh
    • Claude Code for infrastructure. Debug, act, and audit everything Fluid does on your infrastructure.

• Terminology

  • Tool/3rd Party heard of this referred to as 3P

• AWSmanship

  • For AWS, they are using a definition of AI/Agent that's more in line with Person/Sam Altman's definition of taking action in the world.
  • Amazon/Bedrock/AgentCore
    • Added Strands — open-source SDK for building AI agents, released by AWS in 2025
    • Strands/Agent/SOP aka Eval SOP
      • markdown-based instructions that guide AI agents through complex, multi-step tasks
      • SOP = System of Procedures
      • RFC/2119 constraints like MUST, SHOULD, etc
      • a bit like Skills
    • AI/Memory/Episodic
      • enables learning from past debugging sessions
        • situation, intent
        • steps, outcome
        • agent episodic memory can be automatically extracted
  • Stream/ing/Bi-directional - an AI/LLM/Technique
  • AWS/Nova/2/Sonic: Speech to Speech foundation model
  • Web AI/Grounding
  • AWS has a new web automation session that lets you test things
    • AWS/Nova/Act
  • AWS/ECS/Express
    • like AWS/AppRunner
  • AWS/Lambda/Durable Functions are like AWS/Step Function
    • you can resume these
    • you can wait for the response - a major sea change on how to you use it. instead of getting 30 or 60 min lambdas, you'll get durable functions against
  • AWS/Lambda/Rust is now supported! Generally Available Rust
  • AWS/S3/Tables - like Iceberg tables in S3 - Parquet and Iceberg (both from Apache)
  • AWS/S3/Vectors are a big cost savings opportunity
  • AWS/Backup Air-Gapped vaults ... how does this work?
  • Database
    • savings plans
      • requires generation 7 and above
    • AWS/Aurora now has automatic redaction
    • OpenSearch/Semantic Enrichment
  • AI-powered root-cause workflow using the five why's
  • AWS/API/Gateway/MCP
  • AWS/IAM/Policy/Autopilot
  • AWS/IAM/Outbound tokens
  • AWS/IAM/Temporary Delegation
    • if a partner or a student needs elevated permissions for an elevated time, you can granted
  • AWS/Secrets Manager/External Secrets
    • partner rotation code (hosted SAAS)
  • AWS login is getting easier
  • AWS WAF now supports Web Bot Auth (WBA)
  • kiro.dev
    • AI/Coding/Technique/Spec-Driven Dev

• CLI/Craftsmanship

  • tmux
    • Added tmux/Keyshort/Pane/Focus Next Pane and tmux/Keyshort/Pane/Rotate Panes — easy to confuse since Ctrl+b, o vs Ctrl+b, Ctrl+o
    • Added tmux/Q/How do I switch between tmux sessions? — three ways to switch sessions: switch-client from within tmux, detach+attach, or direct attach from outside; Prefix+s is the easiest
  • Added Lazygit/Keyshort/Pull

• Person

  • Created Person/Sam Altman — CEO of OpenAI, former president of Y Combinator

• Security

  • Created Security/ABAC — Attribute-Based Access Control article covering how ABAC differs from Security/RBAC, key components (PEP, PDP, PIP, PAP), and cloud implementations in AWS/IAM, Azure, and GCP