Chris Poole

@chrispoole
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Senior Partner Solutions Architect at #AWS. Prior: Principal Engineer, Developer Relations #Fastly; Lead Solutions Architect #IBM. Theoretical Physics PhD. Interested in developer education, science, security, cloud architecture.
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Chris PooleMar 17

đź”— [ESSAYS] Software Bonkers

https://craigmod.com/essays/software_bonkers/

I really like this arricle from @craigmod. I keep a text file titled “app ideas” with a bunch of iOS and Mac app ideas, and it genuinely feels exciting to quickly be able to develop them.

I don’t know where this leaves us with maintainability, or sharing this code back to the FOSS community which allowed for it in the first place. Nor where it leaves libraries, shared tools, and modular code.

Software Bonkers

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Chris PooleFeb 25

Lovely murmurations yesterday evening, and it’s finally starting to feel like spring.

(Hello, magpie.)
#birds #birdsOfMastodon

Chris PooleFeb 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTyUni8dbkE

Might give Melania a miss.

Mark Kermode reviews Melania

#MarkKermode #SimonMayo #FilmReviewsAn intimate chronicle offers a rare glimpse into the life of Melania Trump, exploring her role as First Lady and her rela...

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Show threadChris PooleDec 16

Comments against the PR generated should have the agent edit the spec (and validate with you) to hone the docs, after proving the change would result in corrected code.

Documentation is the hero.
2/2

Chris PooleDec 16
The more I think about this, and the more I do spec-driven development (with Kiro, natch), the more I think that we should only write design and specification documents for any self-contained system. Generated source code, IaC, etc. should be reviewed for changes before pushing to staging (and then imaged into prod), and not written.
1/2 https://types.pl/@JacquesC2/114829549213012336
Jacques Carette (@[email protected])

It is weird to see the continuing fallacy in the software world that 'source code' is the most valuable asset, by far. The most valuable asset is the knowledge, design decisions, rationale and intent encoded therein. Just because we don't have good languages to encode that does not change the value proposition. That misplaced value equation is also at the root of the LLM-for-SE hype.

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Chris PooleDec 16

How do you do, fellow kids?

That’s right, my first AWS blog post: mainframe monolith meets agentic AI 🎉

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/migration-and-modernization/reimagine-your-mainframe-applications-with-agentic-ai-and-aws-transform/

Reimagine your mainframe applications with Agentic AI and AWS Transform | Amazon Web Services

In this blog post, we outline the AWS approach to modernizing mainframe legacy applications through the reimagine pattern, showcasing how organizations can transform legacy COBOL applications into modern, cloud-native architectures. Organizations are facing urgent imperatives to modernize their legacy mainframe applications due to talent shortages, increasing costs, and restrictions on business agility. AWS supports multiple […]

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Chris PooleNov 18
Currently in my knitwear era.
Chris PooleSep 16, 2025

In a Muse, Citizen Erased, kind of mood today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlKW77GS8Jg

(Which is, incidentally, their best song. I’m not taking questions at this time.)

Muse - Citizen Erased [HD]

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Chris PooleAug 11, 2025
Years after it’s gone and I still miss Yahoo Pipes.
Chris PooleAug 4, 2025
Oasis: a nice way to close out my 30’s!