Your Coding Assistant Is Not You
Developers everywhere are panicking when their AI coding assistant goes silent. The dependency patterns are real and the skill erosion is measurable. But these tools don’t define you. Awareness …
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Subscribe via RSS →The Next Casualty of the GenAI Revolution
I was at an event this morning where someone said something that really resonated with me. “The new programming language is English.” And you know what? They’re right. Jensen Huang …
The Hidden Cost of AI Coding: Technical Debt You Can't See
I had an interesting conversation with a colleague a few weeks ago. He was looking at his team’s metrics, sprint velocity up 40%, PRs merging faster than ever, test coverage sitting pretty at …
LLMs and bon bons
GenAI is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you’re going to get. And just like that box of chocolates, sometimes you get the perfect piece, and sometimes you bite into that bon bon …
Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2025
It is that time of the year again, we are just two weeks away from re:Invent. Every year I write a post) this was last year’s) and every year people tell me that it is a very useful resource for …
Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2024
It is that time of the year again, we are just two weeks away from re:Invent. Every year I write a post) this was last year’s) and every year people tell me that it is a very useful resource for …
Keeping Kosher re:Invent 2023
It is that time of the year again, we are one week away from re:Invent. Every year I write a post, this was last year’s and every year people tell me that it is a very useful resource for many …
In loving memory of my mother - Phyllis Saidel ZL
Last week, my mother passed away. She was 87 when she returned her soul to the creator. Losing a parent is hard, all the more so when it comes suddenly. In my mother’s case, it was something …
4 Years at AWS
Four years have passed. How time flies, it is unbelievable! Three years ago, I wrote about my first year, and now that I just passed my fourth year mark (and also my second year in my role as a …
Setting a timeout for an Amazon ECS task
Sometimes you just want your application to run, but only for a certain amount of time, there are a number of reasons you might want to do this. It could be that that you do not want to spend too much …