😍 G'day Beautiful People...PostSmith Chapter 2: Kiro Spec Driven Development...is the subject of my 2nd edition newsletter: From Musician to Agents... 🚀

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Chapter 1 was musician to agentic orchestrator. Chapter 2 is spec-driven Please subscribe and enjoy.... 😎

Key Highlights:

🔥Don’t start with a fully autonomous orchestrator. Paul fired the agent that chose the trending topics. Two human-in-the-loop checkpoints, beat “set and forget” when the output is your voice, your livelihood and your brand.

🔥Spec first, cathedral never. Kiro + steering docs + Scaled Agile Framework-style increments produces a working Trend Scout in small slices that each showed value. Specs (requirements → design → tasks) beat vague “build me an agent” prompts.

🔥Decouple early. A list in the terminal is not a product. An elegant UI plus a bridge so the front end and back-end agents aren’t welded together. This is the difference between a demo and something you can keep evolving in production.

🔥Give the scout rules, not vibes. Trend Scout scores on explicit criteria (Summit appearance, customer impact, GenAI/agentic focus), cap at 30, use a high-quality model for scoring, Pydantic for a common data model across agents. Consistency across agents starts in the specification.

🔥Memory stops you looking lost. DynamoDB is the memory, so the system doesn’t post the same trend twice in unglamorous fashion. Persistence is part of the architecture, not an afterthought.

Let me know your learnings from your AI adventures. Drop a comment below.... 🙏

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😍 G'day Beautiful People...your AI AgentCore agent can now start trusted AWS Step Function workflows via MCP... without rewriting the steps....🚀

Find the full multi-page AWS Agentic AI Handout here👇
lnkd.in/p/gAwFQcKa

The model chooses when. The workflow decides how. xpress workflows become tools through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. The agent decides when to run and what input to pass. Step Functions runs each step exactly as defined... so the agent can't skip or reorder them. Available wherever AgentCore Gateway is available.

Letting an agent improvise a refund process... that's a finance meeting nobody wants...😂

I turned the What's New firehose into a Flight Simulator brief. Crash in the brief... not live in front of the customer. Let's unpack the hits...🤔

📄 Scannable handout for builders and executives is attached below.

This pack's page-one answer key...

🔁 AWS Step Functions and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway: agents run trusted workflows

📊 Amazon Quick Essentials: AI for every Quick Sight Reader... rolling out in phases at no additional per-user cost

🎧 Amazon Connect Customer and AgentCore Gateway: contact flows reuse agent tools... and it's in Sydney

🧩 Amazon SageMaker AI: several AI models share one GPU... up to seven isolated slices, not in Sydney at launch

🖥️ Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI 1.0: one tool to build and run AI agents

Tiny glossary...

🔁 Trusted workflow = approved steps, in the approved order

🧰 MCP = a standard plug that lets AI agents use your tools

Quick one...which process would you trust an agent to START for you first? 👇

💸 Refunds
👋 New starter onboarding
📞 Customer call routing
🧾 Monthly reports
😅 Be honest...none until I've read the audit trail

Drop your emoji below 👇

That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to enjoy the weekend with my family.

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Exactly what Dion said...🎉

😍 G'day Beautiful People...how did I miss this awesome new cyber security feature...you can now test service control policies (SCPs) in the AWS IAM policy simulator....and the simulator now appears as an option in the IAM console.... 🚀

lnkd.in/gxmk_5u5

This makes it a principal (role or user) yourself, because you can now see what type of policy may be blocking you. Policies you can see in the policy simulator, that could potentially block include:

🔒Identity-based policies
🔒Permissions boundaries
🔒Resource-based policies
🔒Service Control policies

This update makes it really easy...to test your principals and understand what may be blocking you along the way.

That's it. I'm off to help more customers secure their environments.

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Written by a human on earth.... Video courtesy of Grok Imagine....the screenshots are not real...😎

😍 G'day Beautiful People...Edition 3 of my Agentic AI Newsletter is out...keep humans in the loop...loose coupling pays off...keep the front-end thin and spec-driven dev make changes cheap. These are just some of the many learnings from this latest edition...🎸

Newsletter is C76Civ4

Learn about Vite, Trend Scout, the bridge and how using specifications in Kiro...I'm actually using Kiro Crew...can help speed up your software dev lifecycle and result in 100's of automated tests with zero defects.

For those not familiar with Kiro Crew.... it is a persistent, open source development workspace (IDE) that remembers your context, learns how you work, and coordinates across your unique tools and workflows, so you come back to progress instead of another workflow to restart.

The best part...is that I can ask it write and implement a spec with minimal interaction from me...which means it can run for 2-3 hours writing, testing and finalising code...leaving me to do the final UAT, without having to keep watching my screen. I can also run several jobs at once....🚀

What tools do you use for your agentic AI code development. Please comment below.... 👇

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Whoa...finally wrote it...Check out the latest article in my newsletter: PostSmith Chapter 3: Vite

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Heidi Klum poses on the carpet at her annual Halloween party in NYC

Happy Halloween everyone...🎃

What a heartbreaking week it has been. Sir Patrick Stewart was a friend, a colleague, and a magnificent actor. From the stage to the bridge of the Enterprise, he brought intelligence, grace, and a deep sense of humanity to everything he did. Captain Picard stood for the best of us, and so did the man who played him. I was filled with affection and admiration for him and his work.

My heart goes out to Sunny and his family. He will be deeply missed.

😍 G'day Beautiful People...GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. OpenAI says it finishes agent tasks over 3x faster than GPT-6.1 Sol...at half the token price or less...🚀

Faster agents inside your audit logs are a business case...😎

Let's unpack it...🤔
ning and computer use...it takes images as well as text.

📚 Up to 1M input tokens...room for a big codebase or a fat stack of policy docs.

📈 OpenAI says it scored 15 percentage points higher than GPT-5.6 Terra on Agents' Last Exam...on par with GPT-6 Astra.

🔐 Runs through the Bedrock APIs with standard AWS access controls, security and audit logging.

🧑‍💻 ChatGPT Work and Codex can be set to use it on Bedrock.

Try it today...enable it in the Bedrock console, then point Codex at a real codebase and ask it to investigate. Crash in the sandbox...not in front of the customer...😂

Tiny glossary...

🖱️ Computer use = the model drives a screen like a person...reads, clicks, types.

🎯 Agents' Last Exam = an OpenAI benchmark for agent performance.

Quick one...what would you hand GPT-6.1 Terra first? 👇

🧑‍💻 Codebase investigation

🖱️ Computer use workflows

📄 Long document crunching

🤖 A full agent pipeline

😅 Honestly...my inbox

Drop your emoji below 👇

That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to help more customers learn.

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📄 Source...the AWS What's New announcement 👇
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…

😍 Whoa...just as things couldn't get any more wild. AWS Transform can convert application code from Azure SDK to AWS SDK...🤯

The AWS Transform .NET modernization agent identifies Azure service code and converts it to equivalent AWS service code. For example, an Azure nction that uses Azure Cosmos DB can be converted to an AWS Lambda function that uses Amazon DynamoDB.

This means the barrier to migrating away from one cloud to another just got lower. And that barrier will continue to drop.

Love the Gen AI video below. Let me know in the comments 👇

🎤 Prompt Drop
This trainer is making animal balloons. He take an Azure SDK balloon and transforms it into an AWS SDK balloon. Make it fun, humourous but with no talking. In the style of a mime sketch, with quirky mime music.

aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…

🤔 What do you when your @Qantas flight is cancelled due to the Sydney security strikes?

You visit @BrewingDrop in Botany Bay and have the best sours in Australia and catch a later flight...of course...😂

Have an awesome weekend...😍

🎤 Prompt Drop using @grok Imagine a blended UK and Australian accent. There is a bustling crowd of weekend drinkers behind him dressed in colourful craft beer styled clothes. He says "Cheers." Causally sips his sour beer and walks excitedly to a Qantas 737-800.

Scene 2: He walks up the stairs, turns around and says "Enjoy the weekend" and waves goodbye. He says nothing else. Cinematic, fun and compelling.

Good morning Sydney 😍

😍 G'day Beautiful People...Kiro, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor all call the same features by different names. So I mapped them on one page. That's a world first...🚀

Thank you to my wonderful customers today for making me realise the value of this cheat sheet...🙏

The royalty .😂

Steering files or CLAUDE.md? Powers or plugins? Specs or plan mode?

If you build, teach or just simply want to learn more...this cheat sheet is like your Google translater...helping you convert the terms between the different tools. Perfect for me...🎉

If you love this PDF, please save the post, like, comment, repost and follow...but necessarily in that order...😂

The key highlights:

📄 One-page cheat sheet attached below.

🧭 Steering, skills, powers, specs, hooks and agents side by side

🔌 MCP, slash commands and autonomy modes

🖥️ CLI, IDE, cloud and CI options for each tool

✅ Every name checked against the official docs this week

Only Kiro currently ships a full spec workflow out of the box. The others lean on plan mode.

Quick one for the comments...which one is your daily driver? 👇

🟣 Kiro
🟠 Claude Code
🟢 Codex
⚫ Cursor
🤹 All of them, depending on the day

Drop your emoji below 👇

That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to help my customer learn more about Generative AI development...today we cover AgentCore...😍

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😍 G'day Beautiful People...if you lead, build, or teach Generative AI on AWS… this week's handout has a new executive look...🚀

This is based on valuable feedback from some awesome people...and I use it to stay current...🙏

Original post is 👇
lnkd.in/p/g6exPESg

Page xecutive summary of the top 5 releases, so a busy practitioner or leader gets the whole week in two minutes, and every item points to its technical deep dive further down on page 2 onwards.

That means one PDF works for the boardroom and the build team. Execs and TLDR fans read page one, builders flip to their page, and nobody has to translate...🎉

📄 This week's AWS Gen AI and Agentic Weekly is attached below.

🧠 Agent memory now priced by what your agents actually use

🗂️ Agent registry with owners and review status

🤖 Coding agents that build models on SageMaker AI

🎬 Video turned into searchable notes with Pegasus 1.5

Now, a confession. I'm testing some AWS stand up material for re:Invent this year, and I need an honest crowd. Here's one:

"I teach least privilege to all of my students. I. only give people the access they need. My wife's run that policy on me for twenty years. I've got read only access to the TV remote and an explicit deny on too many drinks at our local tavern."

Would this get a laugh in Vegas? Tell me which one and why 👇

😂 Ship it to Vegas
🙂 Needs polish
😬 Keep your day job

That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to help more customers learn...this week in Sydney...😎

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😍 G'day Beautiful People...this week's Amazon Bedrock and agentic AI handout is how you stay ahead of the student who reads it before breakfast...😂

I turned the What's New firehose into a pocket brief you can save, share, and use before the next class. Let's unpack the andout for builders and executives is attached below.

Quick contrast...

⚡ Haiku 5.5 = the cheap fast tier for high-volume jobs… lots of them at once, without lighting the bill on fire.

🎙️ Nova 2.5 Sonic = voice agents that reason and finish the task out loud… not another chatbot that only types.

🔐 Permission-aware RAG = Quick and Bedrock Knowledge Bases check document access live per question… so the model never sees what the user cannot open.

Haiku for volume. Sonic for voice. Live permission checks so the clever answer is still the allowed one. The rest of the digest is in the same PDF if you want Strands Box and the other also-worth hits.

Quick one... which classroom demo do you run first next week? 👇

⚡ Haiku 5.5 on the cost tier
🎙️ Nova 2.5 Sonic voice agents
🔐 Answers that respect document access
📚 The rest of the digest
😅 Be honest... handout first, coffee second

Drop the emoji. Winner gets bragging rights...😎

That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to relax for the weekend.

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😍 G'day Beautiful People...the official full-length exam prep for the AWS Certified AI Business Strategist is in AWS Skill Builder...NOW...🎉

skillbuilder.aws/learn/4RWJPR43…

Original post here 👇
linkedin.com/posts/paulcolm…

This is the standards-driven, quality-controlled prep tool. wer items go through the same revision process as the certification artifacts themselves… so they sit as close to the real cert as possible. Let's unpack this...🤔

🧠 Official full-length exam prep in Skill Builder, revised like the cert items.

🎲 Side question bank = extra practice that never sat in that revision room.

✈️Crash in the official prep simulator… not in the exam room wondering which brain dump lied to you.

Quick one for the comments... what do you trust first when the exam date gets close? 👇

🧠 Official full-length in Skill Builder
📋 The exam guide, then practice
🎲 A popular question bank
😅 Be honest... I start the night before

Drop the emoji in the comments. Winner gets bragging rights...😎

That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to help more customers in their DevOps learning journey.

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🔥 The Olympics is coming to Brisbane...who's coming?

@AdamRogers2030
@avrohomg
@sarbjeetjohal

😍 G'day Beautiful...off to Sydney to run a DevOps Engineering on AWS course...whilst rendezvousing via the new airport viewing platform in Brisbane...✈️

Kids absolutely loved watching the planes take off and land...and of course I had to get a selfie...😂

Back to Devops...this k to the same awkward truth. DevOps is not a tool you buy. It is how the team ships, watches, and recovers when Monday morning goes sideways. It's cultural change plus tooling. Let's unpack a few of the bits that stuck...🤔

🔁 CICD = small, frequent, reversible changes that land safely, not a Friday night bravery contest. Small pieces for through a system faster = Agile...😎

📊 Observability = knowing what is broken before the customer tells you, and preferably before Slack blows up.

🛡️ IaC = the cloud written down so rebuilding is boring, not an archaeological dig...😂

Key learning for me... automate the path to production, measure and limit the blast radius, and design so a bad deploy is recoverable, not legendary.

Blameless postmortems beat finger pointing every time. Pipelines without automated tests are just faster ways to disappoint yourself. And yes... if your runbook only lives in someone's head, that someone is the single point of failure.

Quick one for the comments... what bit of DevOps Engineering on AWS hit you hardest? 👇

🔁 Pipelines that actually gate releases
📊 Logs, metrics, and traces that tell a story
🛡️ Infrastructure as code that rebuilds clean
😅 Be honest... I still click Deploy and pray

Drop the emoji. Winner gets bragging rights...😎

That's it. Enjoy. I'm off to get some rest and then DevOps all week long.

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