The AWS Developers Podcast
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- Agent harness: the 5 pieces your AI agent is missing · 1 h 7 min · Episode 226An agent harness is everything around the model that turns it into a working AI agent, and most agents are missing key pieces of it. In this episode we go through five of them…
- In-flight experience: a cloud inside the plane · 1 h 11 min · Episode 225In-flight entertainment now runs on a cloud. Not the one on the ground, a cloud inside the aircraft. A 300-watt onboard data center running Kubernetes, managed databases and…
- Is AWS Lambda still serverless? · 1 h 12 min · Episode 224Is AWS Lambda still serverless? With Managed Instances, MicroVMs, and Durable Functions, Lambda can now run workloads it was never designed for. AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui…
- Jev: is it just a smarter if-statement? · 50 min · Episode 223Is Jev just a smarter if-statement? That's the question everyone's asking about TypeSafe AI's new "System One" model. In this episode, we dig into what Jev actually is: a model…
- Building Software Will Never Be The Same · 51 min · Episode 222Most developers say AI makes them more productive. Most companies say their teams aren't shipping faster. What's going on? In this special solo episode, Romain unpacks the data…
- Kiro, Strands Agents & MCP: 10 Updates You Missed · 1 h 2 min · Episode 221The MCP specification just went stateless. Clare Liguori — Senior Principal Engineer at AWS and core MCP maintainer — explains what changed, why it matters, and what it unlocks…
- Harness engineering: are you controlling your AI agents? · 51 min · Episode 220What happens when you strip the model from an agent? Everything left is the harness — and engineering that harness is the new discipline every AI builder needs to master. In this…
- How Prime Video's engineers manage agents, not code · 1 h 11 min · Episode 219Prime Video serves over 300 million monthly customers across 240+ territories and 8,000+ device types. Lilia Abaibourova leads the AI-native transformation there. Prime Video…
- Your AI platform isn't mature — here's what is · 53 min · Episode 218I keep hearing 'we're building an AI platform' from enterprises. Most are stitching together demos. Thomson Reuters has been doing AI for 30 years. I sat down with Laura Skylaki…
- The Delivery Gap: Why 96% of Your AI Code Is Waste · 1 h 7 min · Episode 217Brenn reached out via LinkedIn to share his experience with AI-driven software development and his new book, The Delivery Gap. Romain read a copy during a business trip and found…
- What are MCP apps and why should you care? · 51 min · Episode 216Most MCP tools today return text. But what if your agent could render a chart, a form, or a full dashboard right inside the chat? That's what MCP apps do — and they're already…
- 5 Lessons Running AI Agents in Production · 56 min · Episode 215John Sexton and Aaron Tummon from Genesys join the show to share hard-won lessons from building and operating Cloud Copilot — an agentic AI layer serving 2 million users across…
- AWS DevOps Agent: Can Your Pipeline Keep Up with AI? · 46 min · Episode 214Tipu Qureshi — Senior Principal Engineer at AWS — joins the show fresh from the AWS Summit NYC 2026 announcements to break down how DevOps Agent is changing the way teams handle…
- KiroGraph: How a Local Code Graph Saves 80% of Your AI Tokens · 1 h 6 min · Episode 213Davide de Sio built KiroGraph as a personal side project to stop his AI agent from burning through credits just searching files. It turned into a community-driven, open-source…
- Cutting Through the AI Developer Hype · 1 h 20 min · Episode 212An honest, no-filter conversation about where developers actually stand with AI today. Warren Parad — CTO at Authress, AWS Community Builder, and host of Adventures in DevOps —…
- Why Your Agent Evaluations Will Fail You (and How to Fix Them Before Production) · 44 min · Episode 211Anthropic deprecated Sonnet 3.5. Some of Xelix's pipelines migrated smoothly. Others broke — and customers noticed within hours. What separated the two? Evaluation. Paul Solomon…
- 5 Quality Gates That Let You Ship 250% Faster with AI Coding Agents · 1 h 1 min · Episode 210How do you give 120+ engineers AI coding agents — and NOT break production? Ryan Cormack, Principal Engineer at Motorway and AWS Community Builder (recognized as a Renaissance…
- Dark Factories: Why Your AI Coding Setup Is Already Outdated · 49 min · Episode 209You're using Copilot. Maybe you've tried Cursor or Claude Code. But what if that's already the tail end of the AI wave? In this episode, Romain sits down with Christian Weichel…
- LLM-as-a-Judge, Quotation Fidelity, and A/B Testing Models: AI Publishing at Scale · 50 min · Episode 208What happens when a data scientist builds a generative AI proof of concept — and it scales to 700,000 articles and 4 billion page views? Recorded live at AWS Summit London…
- AI Agents, Friction, and the Future of Developer Experience · 51 min · Episode 207AI agents are transforming how we write, test, and ship software — but are they actually improving the developer experience? Recorded live at AWS Summit London, Romain is joined…
