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Patrick Santora Jr. shared thisI've been invited to speak at AWS Community Day Nigeria on December 12 in Port Harcourt. The theme is "From Idea to Impact," which is the gap I work in every day. Most teams using AI coding agents hit the same wall. Fast on day one, unreliable by week three. The agent forgets your rules, skips steps and burns tokens re-reading everything. So I'm proposing a build session, not slides. One idea, taken live through an AI harness: the rules, gates and review agents that make an agent's work repeatable. We'll shape it, build it, get a first version running on AWS, and then look at what it cost. Everyone leaves with the free starter harness I run my own studio on. Thanks to Kenneth Nwokoro and the AWS Women's User Group Port Harcourt for the invite. If you're building on AWS in Nigeria, what would you want to see built live? #AWS #AWSCommunityDay
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Patrick Santora Jr. shared thisWorth a read. Tim H. and I ideate on AI regularly. Good direction.Patrick Santora Jr. shared thisAdventures in Vibe Coding pt. 8 There were so many nights this year I had to stay up and fix stuff b/c my AI said it was done, and it wasn't. Building with AI right now feels like trying to hold the wind in your hands. If you're building with it too, you know the thrash. Every week something changes, and it's exciting and daunting at the same time. We're all building the plane while we fly it. So I wrote down what I learned building my business on AI agents. The good, the bad, and what I'd do different next time. Hoping it helps someone the way others helped me. https://lnkd.in/gvBfaj9P If you're building with AI too, hit me up. I'd love to share what I've learned, learn from what you're doing, and hear your feedback.
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Patrick Santora Jr. shared thisFun fact: Knight Rider solved AI alignment in 1982. KITT's first rule: protect human life. KARR's first rule: protect itself. Same car. Same brain. One's the hero, and one drives itself off a cliff. Every agent you ship has a first rule. Do you know what yours is? #KightRider #AI
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Patrick Santora Jr. posted thisMath homework, translated for anyone who went to school in the '90s. What you learned → what the worksheet says now Carry the one → regroup Borrow from the next column → regroup (again) Memorize 8 + 5 → make a ten Times tables → fact fluency Line them up and multiply → area model Long division → partial quotients Show your work → explain your thinking If you're the one at the kitchen table: do you teach it the way you learned it, or figure out the way the school wants? Which way did you go, and did it work? Send it to whoever does homework duty at your house.
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Patrick Santora Jr. shared thisWould anyone be interested in a virtual version of this event? https://lnkd.in/grnzs-qE
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Patrick Santora Jr. posted thisWhatever model you pick today, you'll be picking again by winter. A new one lands every few weeks. That makes AI adoption a job for whoever leads technology. When every engineer brings their own tool and prompts, each approach stays with the person who built it. Nobody else can reuse it, and nobody can check it. If you lead technology, you decide how the work gets done and what never ships without a check, then write it down once as a harness: rules and gates an agent follows. I run Sanvio Labs on Claude Code, Codex, Kiro and local models, all inside one harness. The check that catches a placeholder in a proposal runs whichever model wrote it. Put repeated work in a loop, and every run hits the same checks. When an agent gets something wrong, you write the rule that stops it happening again. Your harness grows up with the models: when a model earns trust, you loosen a gate and hand it more. You'll borrow skills too. Every one is someone else's instructions running with your permissions. Snyk's February audit of 3,984 skills on ClawHub and skills.sh confirmed 76 as malicious. Have your harness read a skill before you install it, then take only what you're missing and rewrite it your way. On Thursday, October 15, I'm running a two-hour session at the Humanbulb Innovation Center in Sacramento on what a harness does for engineers and for the company. Then we get hands-on, and you leave with a starter harness of your own. Bring a laptop with Claude Code, Codex or Kiro. Details and registration are on Humanbulb's page, linked in the comments. Are you running an existing harness or building your own? What's in it? https://lnkd.in/gDxacNAU #AIEngineering #Sacramento #Claude #Kiro #Codex #HarnessEngineering #BusinessIntelligence
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Patrick Santora Jr. reposted thisPatrick Santora Jr. reposted this⚡ What happens when builders, utilities, and startups share one room for a day? This past Saturday, 8/22, was Amazon Web Services (AWS) Community Day Sacramento — the 2nd annual — hosted by HumanBulb at the Roseville Venture Lab. I had the privilege of working with Patrick Santora Jr. and Tony Henderson on the Anthropic Claude hackathon. Huge thanks to Charlotte Danielsson, Brittany Erkeneff, Henry Chang at HumanBulb for building a space where this community keeps showing up. A few things stuck with me: 🛠️ Builders shipped, not just talked. 13 teams took a real problem from a blank repo to a working product in 4 hours using Claude Code. Several resonated immediately with the theme of the day, a firewatch application to assist with support, but also a wealth builder for underserved community or a Yelp for Parks! 🔌 The most eye-opening conversation was about power. With data center growth driving unprecedented new demand, it was energizing to hear PG&E (Jon Stallman) and Prologis (@Parag Soni, SVP, Global Head of Utility Strategy & Engagement) talk about how they're working together to meet it. Turning a daunting infrastructure challenge into a solvable one through real partnership. A reminder that the AI infrastructure story is so multi-faceted and includes a strong energy story. 🚀 Equally impressive was the SMUD AI-Native CleanTech Accelerator — a partnership with HumanBulb and Patrick Santora. Closing the day with 11 startups pitching and demoing live. It's a powerful model for turning regional innovation into real, AWS-native companies. 🎤 On the Amazon Web Services (AWS) side, thanks to Brian Thomas (Head, Video Compression and AI, AWS Elemental) for the "Real-Time Video AI: Inside AWS Elemental Inference" spotlight, and Anthony Ten Broeck(Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS) for "What's Next in AI." I walked away genuinely impressed — by the thought leadership in the room, by the founders building AI-native companies in our region, and by how optimistic the path forward feels when the right people solve it together. I continue to be energized by working with Charlotte Danielsson, Henry Chang, Brittany Erkeneff, Patrick Santora Jr., and Tony Henderson — and by what's still ahead from this community: the Roseville accelerator's 8-week programs, a follow-on event in the coming weeks, and continued collaboration with partners like PG&E and Prologis on the region's biggest challenges. The best of what we'll build together is still to come. 🚀 📍 Event details 👇 https://lnkd.in/gNyByMFq #AWSCommunityDay #Sacramento #GenerativeAI #AIInfrastructure #ClaudeCode #Energy #DataCenters #HUMANBULB
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Patrick Santora Jr. reposted thisPatrick Santora Jr. reposted thisWe’re excited to welcome Parag Soni, SVP, Global Utility Strategy & Engagement at Prologis [the world’s largest logistics real estate company, which owns and manages approximately 1.3 billion square feet across 20 countries and is expanding into data center and energy infrastructure] to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Community Day Sacramento for a fireside chat on: ⚡ Powering AI at Scale We’re especially honored that Parag is flying in specifically to join us for this conversation! AI may feel digital, but scaling it is increasingly a physical infrastructure challenge. Behind every model, chip and cloud platform are very real requirements for electricity, transmission, substations, land and buildings. As AI infrastructure expands, access to power is becoming a critical factor in where companies build, how quickly they can grow, and which regions are positioned to capture AI-driven growth. 📍 Roseville Venture Lab 📅 Saturday, August 22 REGISTER AT: https://lnkd.in/gXm5nKdv Thank you to our sponsors Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meter, Gradient Cyber CallTower #AWSCommunityDay #AIInfrastructure #Energy #Utilities #Prologis #AWS Wayne Wiley Gina Mccoll Henry Chang Patrick Santora Jr. Tony Henderson Brigette Bucke Demario Bell Aliza Newman Franklin Burris, MPA
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Patrick Santora Jr. shared this250 people signed up for AWS Community Day Sacramento. Two weeks out and still climbing. I'm co-hosting this with Humanbulb and running the hackathon. Teams build from zero using AI dev tools and pitch what they ship at the end of the day. Real products, real demos, real judges. I help run the AWS user group meetings and have spoken at re:Invent and summits. The goal here is no sales pitch, no keynote theater. Just builders showing each other what they figured out. August 22 at Roseville Venture Lab. Free. And if you're earlier stage, Humanbulb is also running an 8-week AI Startup Accelerator right now. Small cohort, structured process from idea to working prototype. Week 1 just happened and 50+ people showed up. Runs through September 24 at the same venue. Two events, same community, same space. One for people already building on AWS. One for people starting from scratch with AI. Both free. AWS Community Day: https://lnkd.in/gfHvRmRe AI Accelerator: https://lnkd.in/gnDc8KQ2
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Patrick Santora Jr. liked thisPatrick Santora Jr. liked thisOur pumpkin has a very clear audit trail. 🎃 Safe by design, lit from within, just like the agents we build. The ghost approves. Happy Halloween from team Aivar. 👻 #Halloween #AgenticAI #AIGovernance
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Patrick Santora Jr. liked thisPatrick Santora Jr. liked thisAmazon published a memo on Tuesday revising its guidelines for software engineers, saying Amazon has entered “the era of the Renaissance Developer” who blends AI and their own expertise and judgment “to build entirely new things.” The idea is that indiscriminate AI use could end up working against the company. Terk Terkowitz, vice president and distinguished engineer at WorldWide Amazon Stores, wrote that counting tokens and measuring lines of code are “deeply flawed” ways to gauge productivity because they don’t necessarily reflect the quality of work. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eEv93Fav
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Patrick Santora Jr. liked thisPatrick Santora Jr. liked this“Berlin is a city forever becoming, never simply being.” — Karl Scheffler. A beautiful description of a city built on reinvention, and of the AI transformation taking shape across Europe. Jensen’s keynote message was clear: Europe must not just consume AI, but produce it — building AI factories, creating sovereign intelligence, enabling secure AI agents, and bringing physical AI into the real world. That spirit of turning possibility into progress came to life throughout the week, from our startup booth tours and compute panel to the AI visionary events connecting the people building what’s next. Huge thanks to our incredible startups, NCPs, and the amazing NVIDIA team who made it all possible. 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 NVIDIA for Startups #startups #physicalai #GTCBerlin Liz Warner Tobias Halloran Chiara Refäuter Troy Estes Jen Hoskins Howard Wright Alison Wagonfeld Daman Oberoi Naomi Kimberly Betz Pierre-Antoine Beaudoin Sydney Sykes Gilad Gershon Gal Mizan Sofia Rivo Alexander Martynau Ethan Lockshin Richard Ling Vanessa Ching Koyeawon Mendee Karissa PaglieroKarissa Pagliero Fredrick NijmFredrick Nijm Daniel S. Greg Homoya Miguel Cristino Matteo Sarcinella Eran Rosenberg Snehal D. Francoise Henry
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Patrick Santora Jr. liked thisPatrick Santora Jr. liked thisDone with my talk about AI and ColdFusion — seemed like it went fine. Yes my code demos included punk rock and 80’s movie references. Nobody knew Ian Mackaye….in DC. But at lunch I was asked if I’m excited about Hum going on tour. Go figure. :)
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Patrick Santora Jr. liked thisPatrick Santora Jr. liked thisIf you are getting ready to build agentic apps on AWS using Bedrock, AgentCore, and Strands, be sure to get your hands on a copy of this new book, "AI Agents on AWS." Written by my colleagues Mona Mona and Bunny Kaushik, the book takes you on a journey all the way from the start (defining Agents and Agentic AI), to production (security, reliability, scale, and cost mamagement), with plenty of worthwhile stops along the way including tooling, agent memory, architecture patterns, and agent communication. With plenty of diagrams and lots of code, this book doesn't just hand-wave, it gets down to the nittty-gritty that you need to know in order to be successful. Amazon link in first comment...
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