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Six lessons from the senior side of the desk: listening past solutions, speaking to your audience, fighting scope creep, and never coasting.

How to design agent skills that trigger reliably, execute safely, and improve over time with evals.

Why agent skill selection fails more often than you think, and how to test it with evals.

How I used AI, grounded by AWS documentation and validated with practice exams, to study for the AIP-C01 certification in two weeks.

How to set up SSH commit signing with 1Password's SSH agent so every commit is verified on GitHub.

Stop passing isProd flags through every stack constructor. Use CDK Stages and an abstract BaseStack to make environment-aware stacks structural instead of procedural.

A practical explanation of the agentic loop by building a tool-calling agent from scratch in TypeScript.

A step-by-step guide to building a tool-calling AI agent locally using the Strands Agents Python SDK and Ollama.

A practical introduction to four JavaScript libraries that will make you a more effective developer: Lodash, Immutable.js, RxJS, and Ramda.