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AWS User Group Meetup

Dawn of the Agents

GenAI Matures The Age of Agents

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From Manual Autonomous

2015

Manual

Human does everything

2023

Assisted

AI as copilot

2025+

Autonomous

AI acts independently

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Foundation Models = Infrastructure

Agents are the Interface

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Foundation Models

Nova 2: Lite · Sonic · Omni

Incremental gains, not magic

Bedrock = model marketplace

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Custom Models

Nova Forge

Custom models are possible

Reality Check

Expensive

Risky

Rarely needed

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AWS ≠ Only GenAI Cloud

Choice beats supremacy

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Agents ≠ Chatbots

Long-lived AI workers

Memory · Tools · Policies · Autonomy

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AWS Agent Stack

Agents
AgentCore / Orchestration
Foundation Models
AWS Infrastructure
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Job-Shaped Agents

DevOps Agent

Security Agent

Kiro (IDE)

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Vibe Coding

Natural language Code

Humans supervise

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Specs > Code

Specs

Intent

Contracts

Code

Implementation

Details

Python is the new assembly 😄

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Vibe DevOps

"I want X"

Terraform / Pulumi

Running Infrastructure

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Governance Moves Upstream

Security starts at prompt time

IAM Autopilot · Policies · Audit Trails

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What This Means

Use best models

Adopt agents carefully

Over-invest in validation

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2025+

You don't write the email

You approve the outcome

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Thank You

The most valuable engineers won't be the fastest typers - they'll be the best delegators.

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