If you’d like to try GPT Astra in pi and prefer to not wait until OPR https://github.com/samfoy/pi-bedrock-mantle/pull/2 to be merged, run

pi remove npm:pi-bedrock-mantle
pi install "git:github.com/MateoGreil/pi-bedrock-mantle@feat/gpt-6-astra-bedrock-mantle"
AWS_REGION=us-west-2 pi

Handy debugging tip. If you’ve a command that exited abruptly but you’re unsure as to why, run echo $?to print its exit code.

The example agents in Strands' home page https://strandsagents.com/ are a great read

Goodreads is a hidden gem 🙂

If you’d like to understand Spec Driven Development (SDD), Martin Fowler’s article on understanding SDD is a great read https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html

Cognitive Debt (Amount of code that nobody has an understanding of) is becoming increasingly relevant as companies aggressively adopt AI agents https://youtube.com/shorts/HJ2vIHf9UJI?is=U9TxajuR2NkoawbE)

A terrific guest lecture on the limitations of LLMs by Professor George Montañez Model Collapse Ends AI Hype

Smallest possible GPT from scratch in under 200 lines of Python by Andrej Karpathy https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/ 🔥

kiro-cli’s docs are a fantastic read https://kiro.dev/docs/cli/ 🔥 It has useful guides on steering, giving knowledge, creating custom agents, configuring hooks etc.

AI agents are dropping the cost of authoring software to zero 🙂

kiro-cli seems even better than Kiro IDE 🔥 Just vibe-coded a Google Apps Script that periodically syncs an Outlook calendar to a Google calendar github.com/nisanthchunduru/calendar-utils using kiro-cli and Claude Opus 4.5

AWS CLI config file’s credential_process setting is super handy.

It gives the ability to specify a command that AWS CLI or AWS SDK can run to obtain AWS credentials (when AWS credentials are unavailable or have expired).

Its especially useful when your employer provides short-lived AWS credentials that have to be periodically refreshed by a command/script.

VSCode’s TypeScript Inlay Hints is a nifty feature. It infers and displays types (like IntelliJ Idea does) of variables, function args and function return value when the types are not explicitly specified by developers.

Tried Amazon’s Kiro after Amazon launched it publicly. Its surprisingly brilliant and possibly Amazon’s best AI product 💯

Its significantly better than existing IDEs (Cursor, Windsurf etc.) and has become primary IDE of choice for both my professional and personal projects. More specifically, Kiro’s Spec Mode is ingenious and unique (atleast for now 😅).

Cursor’s Visual Editor is 🔥 Super handy for iterating on UI

A comprehensive overview of the LLM landscape by Amazon’s Srujana Merugu https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/software-engineering-radio-the-podcast-for/id120906714?i=1000740506470