Part 22 of DEV Track Spotlight 🤖

DEV403 with @jameshood.dev (AWS) & @maishsk.com (AWS)

"I am also a former AI skeptic. My previous experience with AI was trying flashy demos on real world code and watching it crash and burn."

Then he discovered Agent SOPs.
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GitHub - strands-agents/agent-sop: Natural language workflows that enable AI agents to perform complex, multi-step tasks with consistency and reliability. Natural language workflows that enable AI agents to perform complex, multi-step tasks with consistency and reliability. - strands-agents/agent-sop

Also got to demo Strands Agent SOPs, a simple but incredibly powerful technique for creating “determin-ish-tic” agentic workflows. Agent SOPs are an innovation that came from our internal builder community and is now open source to benefit the broader AI community. github.com/strands-agen...

2025 has been the most gratifying year of my career. Felt privileged to share the #AWSreInvent stage with @abaibourova.bsky.social and tell the true story of how I went from #AI skeptic to power user, sparking a company-wide grassroots movement of tens of thousands of #Amazon builders.

📰 New article by James Hood, Nicholas Clegg

Introducing Strands Agent SOPs – Natural Language Workflows for AI Agents

#AWS #OpenSource

Excited to give this talk at #AWSreInvent w/ @abaibourova.bsky.social! Come learn about Amazon's internal transformation to #AI Native software development through a mix of grassroots builder energy and organizational support. Can't wait to tell this story! registration.awsevents.com/flow/awseven...

Are you curious how Amazon's internal teams are leveraging #AI assistants to accelerate their development cycles? 🤔 Join our code talk "DEV403 | How Amazon Teams Use AI Assistants to Accelerate Development" at #AWSreInvent #AWS #DeveloperTools #generativeAI registration.awsevents.com/flow/awseven...

GitHub - aws/amazon-q-developer-cli: ✨ Add autocomplete and AI to your existing terminal on macOS & Linux ✨ Add autocomplete and AI to your existing terminal on macOS & Linux - aws/amazon-q-developer-cli

Don’t be sleeping on Amazon Q! Launched a completely revamped agentic chat experience on 3/7. Open source, great pricing. github.com/aws/amazon-q...

I Need Therapy (and you do too!) Trigger warning: This post contains content about suicide.

3 years ago today. Thinking of you my friend. 💔 #ineedtherapy jlhood.com/i-need-thera...

AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review | Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review AWS CloudFormation enables you to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code-base templates. Whether you prefer writing templates directl...

2024 was a big year for #AWS #CloudFormation. Check out this blog post to see a recap of what we launched! 🚀 Even more excited about what we have planned for 2025! 😄 aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops...

#AWS #CDK support in progress! 🙂 github.com/aws/aws-cdk/...

Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring

AWS CloudFormation introduces a new capability called stack refactoring that makes it easy to reorganize cloud resources across your CloudFormation stacks. Stack refactoring enables...

#AWS #AwsGovcloudUs #AwsCloudformation

Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring - AWS Discover more about what's new at AWS with Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring

#AWS #CloudFormation now supports stack refactoring! Super excited about this launch!! 🚀 aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Fun!

Yeah concussions take forever to recover from. I had a hockey team mate out for 6 months. Take care of yourself! Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help.

I'm so sorry. 😢

Oh no! Snowboarding accident? ☹️

On Call (TV Series 2025– ) | Action, Crime, Drama On Call: Created by Tim Walsh, Elliot Wolf. With Troian Bellisario, Brandon Larracuente, Eriq La Salle, Rich Ting. Follows a pair of police officers on patrol as they respond to a new radio call, arri...

Not against police procedurals, but I was expecting a whole different kind of “thriller” from an Amazon Prime original series called On Call… 📟 www.imdb.com/title/tt1458...

Wrote a short blog post on how goodput can degrade ↘️ as offered load to our system increases ↗️ www.efekarakus.com/2025/01/08/g...

Happy New Year? 😭

RFC 676: Contributor-Council-Charter.md by haubles · Pull Request #679 · aws/aws-cdk-rfcs This is a request for comments about the proposed AWS CDK Contributor Council. See Tracking Issue #676 for discussion of the proposal. By submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contributi...

As the new OSS Developer Advocate for AWS CDK, I was hired to help evolve the way AWS engages with the CDK community.

Today, we're proposing to form a CDK Contributor Council as a first step in that evolution.

github.com/aws/aws-cdk-...

Something to remember

Don’t worry. I’m just going to merge this 1-liner code change before I close my laptop for the holiday…

One of the most reliable ways to improve our mental health is to help others.

After being randomly assigned to do just 3 acts of kindness a week, people felt significantly less depressed, anxious, and lonely.

Lifting others up elevates us too. Giving shows us that we matter.

Excellent piece on Amazon Aurora DSQL from @ryan-sb.bsky.social. A take that is nuanced and introspective on DSQL’s place in the AWS ecosystem. rsb.io/posts/re-exp...

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The most valuable thing you can do for your career is to be thoughtful about how you spend your time. One of the tools I use most to do that, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec's principal roles framework, is now available outside Amazon for the first time.

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Missed #reInvent 2024? No worries! The unofficial planner is now updated with session slides and video recordings. 📅✨ Rewatch your favorites or discover new ones based on topic, level, or interest anytime, anywhere. Happy learning and happy holidays! 🎄🎉
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