why do I need to write a personal letter to rent an Airbnb? do I need to describe why I am worthy of paying for my stay and cleaning after myself?

#awssummit the use of agentic AI has reduced the prep time for each account management meeting by 2h. 10 meetings a week. Warm congratulations to the Account Management team at Amazon for their 20h work week 🎉 right Anakin?

#awssummit why brand the session about how to approach AI transformation in a respectful and humane way as "women in the cloud" and why have the "Women in the cloud" track all the way at the back of the venue?

imagine being on stage as Head of Development for a large bank and saying that AI is the perfect match for use cases requiring 0 mistakes

at the AWS summit for work today. are we just putting Ops at the end of everything now? DevOps of course but FinOps, Business Ops, CloudOps, FeatureOps, what?

https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/ "Productivity growth [...] improv[es] the material well being of the entire population." says the man worth $2bn

what in the tarnation are my AI memories? like you mean that one time I didn't meet Taylor Swift but had AI make a video of it? or that one time I hung out with an AI and chatted with it like it was a human friend? get off my lawn

so when airlines cancel flights because fuel is too expensive, that's the travelers problem all of sudden. the house only plays if they win?

watching a tribute to John Williams in Danish. The contrast between the melodious music and that affront to God of a language couldn't be more striking

How to get nothing from a Product or Development team: Claim every request is the most important and most urgent. When your most important and most urgent request doesn't get addressed, hit them with something less important. Surely that will make the cut.