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Agent Plugins Are the Future. But You Might Be Giving Away Your Best Engineering.

A few weeks ago AWS dropped Agent Plugins, a packaging model that bundles skills, MCP servers, hooks, and reference docs into installable units for AI coding agents. Two commands and your Claude Code or Cursor agent knows how to deploy to AWS, estimate costs, and generate IaC.

CloudWatch Logs Just Got an HTTP Endpoint. That Changes More Than You Think.

Every time I set up log shipping from a non-AWS source to CloudWatch, the same friction shows up. Install an agent. Configure IAM credentials. Implement SigV4 signing. Manage rotation. It works, but it is a lot of ceremony for “send this text to that place.”

OpenAI Symphony: When AI Agents Run Your Sprint Board

We’ve spent the last two years watching AI coding assistants evolve from glorified autocomplete to genuine collaborators. But there’s been a persistent gap between “AI that helps you code” and “AI that ships features while you sleep.” On March 5, 2026, OpenAI quietly open-sourced the bridge: OpenAI Symphony.

How We Built Race Radio Control in a Week With Claude Code and Airia

Last week, Chris Porter and I entered the Airia F1 Atlassian Williams Racing virtual hackathon as team JoPoCo (Jones + Porter + Co). We had seven days to build an AI-powered fan experience for remote motorsport viewers. What we shipped was Race Radio Control: a second-screen companion that lets fans tune into four AI-powered radio feeds — Carlos Sainz, Alex Albon, team principal James Vowles, and stats host Max Folds — all grounded in live telemetry data.

Stop Debating When Quantum Breaks RSA. Start Building the Ability to Switch.

Another week, another quantum breakthrough. On March 2, the Advanced Quantum Technologies Institute announced the JVG algorithm, a hybrid classical-quantum approach that, they claim, could factor RSA keys with fewer than 5,000 qubits. That is three orders of magnitude below the million-qubit estimates we have been working with for years.

AWS Config Just Added 30 Resource Types. The Bedrock AgentCore Ones Matter Most.

AWS quietly announced support for 30 new resource types in AWS Config on March 2, 2026. If you’re the kind of person who skims these announcements and moves on, I get it. Most Config resource type expansions are incremental. This one isn’t.

AWS ACM Certificate Validity Change: 198-Day Certificates & the Road to 47 Days

On 18 February 2026, AWS quietly updated ACM to reduce the default validity of public certificates from 395 days to 198 days. If you’re running anything on AWS that terminates TLS — CloudFront distributions, Application Load Balancers, API Gateway endpoints, Elastic Beanstalk — this affects you.

Is Infrastructure as Code the Next Abstraction to Fall?

I’ve been staring at a Terraform module for the last ten minutes, and I can’t stop thinking about a question that would have been absurd two years ago: why am I writing this?

AWS Bedrock Open-Weight Models in Sydney: Australian AI Sovereignty

If you’ve been building AI workloads in Australia, you’ve felt the frustration. The models you want to use are sitting in US regions. Your compliance team is asking where inference data is being processed. And every API call is adding 180-200ms of network latency before the model even starts thinking. Run a five-step agentic workflow and you’re adding a full second of pure network overhead before any model computation happens.

AWS EC2 Nested Virtualization: Run KVM & Hyper-V Without Bare Metal

If you’ve ever needed to run a hypervisor inside an EC2 instance, you know the pain. For years, the answer from AWS was simple: buy a bare metal instance. That meant paying for an i3.metal or m5.metal just to get access to hardware virtualisation extensions. Need to test a Firecracker microVM setup? Bare metal. Want to run KVM for a security sandbox? Bare metal. Running nested Hyper-V for a Windows lab? You guessed it.