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When Your AI Coworker Changes Without Warning

LLM-powered development tools introduce a strange new kind of dependency: their behavior. What happens when the software still works, but the coworker you learned to work with has quietly become someone else?

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AWS Login

A standalone AWS account, two developers who needed CLI access by tomorrow, and none of the usual options quite fit. `aws login` gave me short-lived credentials with almost no setup—and no long-lived access keys.

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My first 10 minutes in a new repository

My first 10 minutes in a new repository

The first ten minutes in a new repository reveal a lot. READMEs, scripts, file structure, tests, and setup all send signals about how a team works. For anyone focused on developer experience, these early moments often tell you what working in the system will really feel like for months to come.

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Using AWS Data Migration Service for Near-Real-Time Redshift, Part 1

Most warehouses run a day behind production. They don’t have to. Let's explore how AWS DMS streams changes from RDS Postgres to Redshift within seconds, replacing batch jobs with near–real-time replication and laying the groundwork for a production-ready setup.

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