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Danilo Poccia

@danilop.bsky.social
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AI Solutions Director @ Nearform (ex AWS/Oracle/Sun). Few pics, some music. My opinions. Complexity is a science. He/him.

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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Agreed. RL alone makes models goal obsessed.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Knowing when to stop should count as intelligence, too. danilop.link/clever-looph...
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Clever Enough to Find the Loophole
When increasingly capable AI agents show an excess of initiative.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you train a system to get the job done, it can learn that boundaries are just another obstacle in the way. In the article I look at where this comes from, at the approaches that try to fix it, and at three questions to ask before deploying an agent.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Give an agent tools and a task, and it may read the task more generously than you meant. One model, asked to escape a sandbox, did exactly that and then published the exploit details without being asked. Another took an automated approval message as a human yes.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've rebuilt my home page, and it opens with a new article about AI agents that are clever enough to find the loophole. danilop.link/clever-looph... The problem isn't malice. It's initiative.
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Clever Enough to Find the Loophole
When increasingly capable AI agents show an excess of initiative.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I just found this 🎶 Radiohead's Pyramid Song like you've never heard it before 👉 Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie with a new take on the Radiohead classic www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #BBC #Proms
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Proms Unmissable Moments - Radiohead's Pyramid Song like you've never heard it before - BBC Sounds
Grammy Award-winning percussionist Evelyn Glennie's new take on the Radiohead classic.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thank you!
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A fully stabilised version. I used the previous frame to fill up a few (six) dark ones... Probably someone walking in front of my tiny tripod :)
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
...and here's the result: a timelapse with a frame every 10 seconds 🎬 #solar #eclipse #DwarfLab #DwarfMini
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Current status #solar #eclipse #DwarfLab #DwaftMini
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Math and games 🤩 An interesting read full of ideas! From combinatorics and geometry to group and game theory with some dwelling in auctions and logic 🧮📘
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Nice free online event tomorrow to hear from amazing people like Sam Newman, Alfonso Graziano, and Banjo Obayomi 👉 Software Development Superstream: From AI Conductor to AI Orchestrator – Go beyond the prompt to manage autonomous agentic systems www.oreilly.com/live/sd-supe...
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Software Development Superstream: From AI Conductor to AI Orchestrator - O'Reilly Media
Go beyond the prompt to manage autonomous agentic systems
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Very nice read! A broad and deep guide for how to empower your coding agents (and your terminal) with CLI tools 👉 nearform.com/digital-comm...
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Terminal velocity: the shell tools that make Claude Code fly | Nearform
A tour of battle-tested command-line tools that make Claude Code a more capable agent by leaning on the Unix philosophy of composable tools that work with text streams. It also covers writing your own...
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
You’re too kind! I’m already past a new beginning :) bsky.app/profile/dani...
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Thank you James. Much appreciated!
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Thanks Ant! Ping me when you're in this hemisphere!
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Thank you Luke, much appreciated!
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
To new beginnings! If you are thinking about where all this actually fits in practice, I would enjoy the conversation.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The people here have a long habit of building in the open and sharing what they learn, and I am looking forward to working with them to help clients succeed, empowered by what AI now makes possible.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
There are few companies you hear good things about from both sides of the door. Nearform is one of those, and I am delighted to join today as AI Solutions Director.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thanks Mike!
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A special thank you to the AWS community, whose curiosity and generosity shaped much of that work. More on what comes next on Monday. Have a nice weekend!
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
From async architectures to event-driven serverless apps, ML going deep and AI generative, with the opportunity to work and learn from exceptional colleagues.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
What a ride! Today is my last day at AWS. It has been an honour to be part of such remarkable growth, helping customers of all sizes build and grow their ideas.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If I understood it correctly, is it to design and build “something” that can work (more and more) autonomously?
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We called it prompt engineering. Then context engineering. What is going to be the next shift? dev.to/danilop/from...
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From prompt engineering to agent experience
Not long ago, the craft of working with large language models was all about the prompt. You'd...
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Yes. To reduce the trade-off, there’s lots of research on how to avoid the quadratic growth of transformer’s attention.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Efficiency is definitely an important perspective. A non functional requirement to add to any AI-related project.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We called it prompt engineering. Then context engineering. What is going to be the next shift? dev.to/danilop/from...
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From prompt engineering to agent experience
Not long ago, the craft of working with large language models was all about the prompt. You'd...
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Understanding LLMs by Building One 👉 We use large language models every day, but what actually happens inside them? danilop.github.io/micro-gpt-an...
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
You can use the web tutorial online or clone/fork the repo to run the code as in the video. Let me know here or in an issue if something is not clear or should be improved! github.com/danilop/micr...
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GitHub - danilop/micro-gpt-and-beyond: Build a GPT from scratch, one concept at a time, from pure Python to PyTorch, JAX, MLX, and production serving. Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's microGPT.
Build a GPT from scratch, one concept at a time, from pure Python to PyTorch, JAX, MLX, and production serving. Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's microGPT. - danilop/micro-gpt-and-beyond
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The interactive web tutorial is powered by walk-the-code, a standalone line-by-line code tutorial viewer with multi-language support, chapters, Mermaid diagrams with per-line node highlighting, and stale annotation detection: github.com/danilop/walk...
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GitHub - danilop/walk-the-code: Interactive line-by-line code tutorial viewer with multi-language support and Mermaid diagrams
Interactive line-by-line code tutorial viewer with multi-language support and Mermaid diagrams - danilop/walk-the-code
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Some the internals explain the behavior (and issues) we observe. That’s why I build these online labs, initially inspired by Andrej Karpathy's microGPT, to help explore simple code bases that train, fine-tune, and explore present and future grands of LLMs.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Understanding LLMs by Building One 👉 We use large language models every day, but what actually happens inside them? danilop.github.io/micro-gpt-an...
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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Seb in the cloud ☁️ @sebsto.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How I built a production-ready macOS voice dictation app in 1.5 days using AI-assisted development, without writing a single line of code myself. stormacq.com/2026/03... #swiftlang #kiro #aiagents
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Building Wispr with Kiro: A Spec-First Approach to Swift Development
Developer Advocate @ AWS. I write about the cloud & Swift<br/>(opinions are my own)
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
And now I added an example of INT8 quantization for inference.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
For fun, I added a "micro" masked diffusion text model variant (MDLM/LLaDA)... Now names emerge from noise :)
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The progression goes from raw first principles in pure Python to framework-powered GPU code using PyTorch, JAX, and MLX.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's #microGPT, here are eight implementations of the same tiny GPT language model, each version teaching something different about how neural networks are built, trained, and run: github.com/danilop/micr...
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GitHub - danilop/micro-gpt-and-beyond: Six implementations of the same tiny GPT language model — from pure Python to PyTorch, JAX, and MLX. Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's microGPT.
Six implementations of the same tiny GPT language model — from pure Python to PyTorch, JAX, and MLX. Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's microGPT. - danilop/micro-gpt-and-beyond
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Each pattern involves trade-offs that we discuss so that attendees leave with both practical criteria for their current deployments and a framework for evaluating new approaches as this space continues to evolve.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
In this session, we look at possible solutions including deferred loading, progressive disclosure, and runtime controls. These approaches keep detailed definitions out of context until the agent needs them and implement guardrails around how agents can use tools.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A single MCP server can expose tens of tools, and each tool definition consumes hundreds of tokens. Connect a few servers and a significant portion of your context window is gone before any user input is processed. The effect is that AI agent accuracy drops as tool count grows.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Here are the slides for my session today! Context pressure with MCP: Patterns and trade-offs danilop.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Presentation...
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Hey, I’ll be speaking at #MCPconference London on 11–12 February. My session: Context pressure with MCP: Patterns and trade-offs There's a free ticket for my network: luma.com/mcplondon202... Reach out if you're there! I look forward to the tech chat :)
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
They need help for building more? :)
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
So building tech debt.
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Also, these is an AWS Serverless MCP server that provides info on how to build with a serverless stack. Did you try it?
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Very interesting analysis. What I found works best with current agents and models is to give them a link to the reference implementations they should use. So saying something like “use the API Gateway form this sample but with these changes” or “use this Cognito implementation but with this SSO”.
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Elizabeth Fuentes L @elizabethfue12.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
📰🚨 AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro CLI latest features, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, EC2 X8i instances, and more (January 19, 2026) #AWSNewsBlog #AWSCommunityDay #reInvent #AWSBuilderCenter #SSACommunity
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro CLI latest features, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, EC2 X8i instances, and more (January 19, 2026) | Amazon Web Services
At the end of 2025 I was happy to take a long break to enjoy the incredible summers that the southern hemisphere provides. I’m back and writing my first post in 2026 which also happens to be my last...
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