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Adam Jacob

@adamhjk.me

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CEO of System Initiative, Co-Founder of Chef. Open source. Heavy metal and music. Comics. @adamhjk on Twitter, @adamhjk@hachyderm.io on Masotodon.

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Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me · 12/10/2026

Meanwhile over at Swamp Club, the community is timing their activities to maximize points for everyone - you might be building with AI, but you’re probably not having as much fun as we are :)

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Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me · 01/09/2026

A lot of the hype-cycle around AI makes it sound like what's happening is we're abandoning everything we've ever learned about, well... everything, and just handed it over to the God machine. Of course that's not true - instead we're figuring out what they mean in context.

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Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me · 19/08/2026

You don't stop being an engineer when you build software with a factory. You change your perspective from being focused on the implementation details to focusing on the machine that writes it. I break down how to build one in this talk: swamp-club.com/campaign/sof...

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Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me · 13/08/2026

Your software factory will be unique, because your software is unique. It's an expression of your creativity, your intelligence, and your community. We know of at least 9 different examples within the swamp community alone. It's the way. (Want more like this? swamp-club.com/podcast)

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Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me · 06/08/2026

OpenAI's recent price reductions bring high quality intelligence at a low price point at higher speed. Pick the right model for the right task. Swamp helps you do this by putting a workflow as the spine of the agent, and then choosing when to use which model. More at swamp-club.com/podcast

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Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me · 05/08/2026

We've not done a code review in months, and the industry move right now is toward plan review. In our experience, that doesn't last long - because what you really want is creative connection, and that's best done face to face, not in a doc. (swamp-club.com/podcast for more moments like this!)

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Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me · 04/08/2026

Done!

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Adam Jacob @adamhjk.me · 04/03/2025

Adam, you ask - why will I switch from Terraform to System Initiative? Here is one reason coming your way - every single AWS service will have an integrated qualification that shows you *in real time* if your credential has the required IAM permissions, and for which operations. In real time.