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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 29/09/2026

Article is now free: Agentic AI Email Bot on AWS Bedrock AgentCore: Part 2 We took our Slack and Teams internal AI agent (that we wrote ourselves) and made it respond to email. That poor robot. Execs love it, go figure buff.ly/1vp3rqP

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 28/09/2026

Someone messaged me on Blue sky with what I thought was a valid question, so I responded. Their response to me is painfully AI generated. What do any of us gain by putting robots between us in conversation? AI is a terrible writer, and DOESN'T THINK. Don't outsource your smart human brain to a bot

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 25/09/2026

In the worst case, AI will replace us we'll all be re-enacting the end of Office Space. In the best case, AI handles the boring stuff, and we get to handle the interesting edge cases. In case anyone finds a way to enable actual creativity in bots, please refer to the attached image.

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 22/09/2026

New article available: Full /sdlc in a Single Skill Command aka, from ticket to Prod with your team of robots Software engineering becomes managing the team of robots. It's weird. Come read about it. It's paid but not for you: buff.ly/4sRQsHU

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 15/09/2026

🔥 AI makes work for itself AI tools shouldn't require your most senior engineers to work 75-hour weeks just to operate them. Use AI to build deterministic tools, then let those tools do the work. Turn expertise into repeatable processes the whole team can safely operate. buff.ly/xMB0BN4

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 11/09/2026

I think as a senior technical group, we have to remember that an AI tool is the very first (Beta, Alpha) take at how to do a job. We should be pouring that creativity and expertise into tools that have handles and safeguards to make them easy and simple enough to be operated by the whole team.

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 04/08/2026

The US is short of donated blood, go donate! Visit red cross blood dot org to get on the schedule today 😁

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 10/07/2026

Hey everyone! My wife and I have had a new baby, so I'm taking a break from social media. I will be spending all this time reading up on AI... lol, not really, gonna throw my phone off a bridge and pretend computers don't exist. Blogging paused, podcasting is recorded and won't be interrupted. ✌️

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 07/07/2026

The new Sonnet 5 model is pretty sure everyone is incompetent or lying. Finally, the real developer experience.

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 30/06/2026

Sonnet 5 is out, and it's better at coding and worse at cybersecurity. So... yay?

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 26/06/2026

Got a robot mower. I think it's sick?

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 25/06/2026

If you use the Atlassian MCP in SSE mode, it's about to be deprecated You can check with: > claude mcp list If you see it, you need to remove it: > claude mcp remove atlassian And add the new http one: > claude mcp add --scope user --transport http atlassian mcp.atlassian. com/v1/mcp

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 10/06/2026

AgentCore: Deployment, Operations, and Lessons Learned (4/4) 🔥 aka, wish I'd known that earlier Now free for everyone. Terraform patterns, container operations, debugging headaches, observability, costs, and the lessons learned running AgentCore in production. buff.ly/pM26weS

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 09/06/2026

Enterprises with zero data retention aren't going to be Fable-ing today unfortunately . I'm talking about me. 😭

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 04/06/2026

Article now free: AgentCore: Memory and Tools (3/4)🔥 This article covers how we gave Vera (an AWS AgentCore, Strands-based AI bot across Slack, Teams, Email) persistent memory. buff.ly/YptyCio

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 28/05/2026

Fantastic fun with Ned!! > Hosts Ned and Kyler compare notes on everything they’ve been doing with AI, including the successes they’ve enjoyed and headaches they’ve suffered building and implementing AI agents. buff.ly/lg1927N

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 27/05/2026

> 👏 Great news: your application was approved for another year in the AWS Community Builders program Yay! I'm glad to stay in this great community (though we all miss Jason Dunn, who was the heart and soul of the program).

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 21/05/2026

I wonder if I can get my AI diagnosed with ADHD like me...

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 19/05/2026

New article: teaching Claude Code to run a full SDLC workflow autonomously. This one covers the orchestrator pattern behind our multi-agent AWS AgentCore workflow: implement, review, deploy to DEV, validate in Slack, deploy to PROD, and validate again. It's paid, but not for you: buff.ly/sK3mEsQ

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 05/05/2026

AgentCore MCP Gateway article is now free. If you’ve been wiring up MCP tools one by one, you’ve probably felt the pain—different auth flows, scattered secrets, and a growing pile of integration code just to make everything work together. buff.ly/raMo5VI

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 01/05/2026

Did you know a lot of places assume married couples are male/female pairs? I bought a house, and the Title company's notary had to get out the white-out to fix the doc we signed!

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 29/04/2026

What if an LLM lived on an ASIC and was absolutely BLAZING FAST? Taalas and Ljubisa Bajic did just that, and you can use it today. Check out chatjimmy[.ai] to try it now!! Check out the image for an example - it generated that response in 6 ONE THOUSANDTH of a second!!

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 27/04/2026

New blog post: Agentic AI Email Bot on AWS Bedrock AgentCore: Building the Thread, Sending the Reply, and Operating in Production (2/2) Focuses on what happens after the email hits the worker. And the code is now open sourced!! Link in the article. buff.ly/kO022PU

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 15/04/2026

🔥 This very popular article is now FREE: AWS AgentCore Agentic Slack Bot - Full Architecture and Code (1/4). Moved Vera from the Lambda “invoke and die” model to a warm, long-lived AgentCore app built for agent workflows buff.ly/glbZD3h

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 13/04/2026

When your mom is into computers you get the jokes early 😆

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 25/03/2026

Post is now free: migrating VeraResearch to first-class MCP tool support in Strands. Running multiple MCP servers caused tool name collisions and a pile of custom wrapper code to manage prefixes and filtering. This post shows how we deleted that complexity using native MCPClient buff.ly/fV2InLi

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 17/03/2026

Claude, I'm gonna take that as a yes

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 11/03/2026

Post is now free on how to build audit logging across AI bots using python and AWS cloudwatch. Agentic bots make many calls per request, so audits get messy fast. This post shows the simple audit layer we added user identity, question, response, sessionID for easier debugging. buff.ly/2TZtqEt

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 05/03/2026

I'm a huge nerd for Andy Weir books, I've read The Martian ~12 times and Hail Mary 3 times. Cannot wait to see this live!! Anybody else going?

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 03/03/2026

It's not just you, the entire github platform is unstable and crashing right now. So if we need Claude to write code, and GitHub to store and deploy code, and both have nearly daily issues, like... what the heck do we do now. Is this what software engineering is now?

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 19/02/2026

If you’re building agentic Slack bots with AWS, this one dives deep into the AgentCore MCP Gateway and how I’m wiring Vera into PagerDuty, GitHub, Atlassian, Splunk, Azure, and AWS CLI. I share all code, as well as why. It's paid, but not for you. buff.ly/6yWW6BJ

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 16/02/2026

Oh, so THAT's why my Atlassian/Jira MCP keeps failing. You can track here: buff.ly/FrnVk2i

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 16/02/2026

I've discovered sub-agents, which can work in parallel on tasks coordinated by a manager AI, and I'm never going back. This is super cool.

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 12/02/2026

This was yesterday. I don't remember having seen github runners limited by capacity. Particularly with the ownership by $MSFT, how can they be limited by capacity?

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 11/02/2026

The article Fixing MCP Tool Name Collisions When Building a Unified CLI Tooling Experience is now free to read on the Day Two DevOps blog. buff.ly/MueTGQS

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 10/02/2026

Wrote up how we're combining local and remote MCPs on Strands with the AWS AgentCore gateway. Article is coming 2/17! The code is open source and available now though on github: github/KyMidd/AgentCore_AgenticSlackBot

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 09/02/2026

It's not just you, many github functions are broken right now

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 03/02/2026

I built an entire AWS AgentCore agentic bot for Slack, and you can too. All architecture and code shared. I added memory per user so you can teach the bot how to help you with your job, and how to program. It's all built with Strands toolkit. Absolutely rad stuff here. More coming soon!

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 18/12/2025

New article is live! It's about how I migrated my Agentic Strands-based bot to use the new first-class MCP Tool interface that Strands just shipped. It lets the bot register all MCPs concurrently and saves about 10 seconds on each response with lots of MCPs. buff.ly/HVuRfSP

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 17/12/2025

Oh hey, that's pretty cool. Thanks ya'll :D <3

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 10/12/2025

Didn't make it in to #RSA this coming year. I had the best time at RSA previous years. Congratulations to all the folks that did make it in! I'll have to come up with another excuse to see everyone next year :D

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 25/11/2025

New post: building audit logging for multi platform AI bots with Python and CloudWatch. Bedrock logs were not enough for real audit needs, so we built our own system with consistent usernames and session level correlation across Slack and Teams. www.letsdodevops.com/p/building-a...

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 20/11/2025

I don't sell Vera, but if I did, this is the type of feedback I'd use to do so :D All code is public so you can deploy it yourself (for free) buff.ly/WRCWuaR

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 18/11/2025

New post: AWS Strands + MCP, super simple real-world examples. Strands makes agentic workflows easy — multi-step actions, tool use, and open-source. I’m sharing small examples as I build them out. buff.ly/cFQZ2VI

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 30/10/2025

You know how AI-generated photos have a yellow pallor? Attached photo for reference. There's an idea that the models were trained on older photos that were scanned into computers, and the photos had yellowed with age. Tech is weird.

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 28/10/2025

In Part 5 of my “Building a Teams Bot with AI Capabilities” series, we dive into the fun stuff: how the bot actually reads conversations, grabs context, and posts AI-generated responses back into Teams. Full article’s free to read, link in image #DevOps #TeamsBot #AWS #AIIntegration #LetsDoDevOps

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 27/10/2025

If you've wondered how to REALLY use MCPs in your bots, me too. So as I've been experimenting and adding things to my Strands bot at work, I've been publishing all the code, including the MCPs which so far includes: * Atlassian * AWS * Azure * GitHub * PagerDuty Find it here: buff.ly/3sRrT5V

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 23/10/2025

MinIO has stopped publishing their namesake object-store docker file, now requiring customers to build from source. This, with no notice, over 1B (billion) downloads from dockerhub, and just after a critical CVE was dropped. Have your teams check if they're using this image from dockerhub.

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 22/10/2025

Do you know who subscribes to LetsDoDevOps[.]com? Turns out folks from: - Amazon - Intel - Hashicorp - Boeing - GitHub - SAP - Fortinet - Sandia National Laboratories - ZScaler - Anduril Please go subscribe, there's a free tier (but paid helps me buy caffeine to keep generating the content haha)

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Kyler Middleton @letsdodevops.com · 21/10/2025

When you interact with Bedrock services, your logs get put into a cloudwatch log group. That sounds great, right? Except ALL bot interactions get put into the SAME log group, making differentiating all those logs a pain. FireHose can solve this with some custom lambda. Link in the image :D

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