Commentary on AI, coding with agents, and the future of software — from the workshop floor.
AI Agents
The Advisor Strategy: How Claude Code Just Changed How We Build AI Agents
Syed Shahul Hameed · Apr 10, 2026
Anthropic just baked a new pattern into Claude Code — the Advisor strategy. Sonnet runs your task end to end and only calls Opus when it hits a wall. Better performance, lower cost, and one line in your API call changes everything about how we build AI agents.
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#AIAgents
#Anthropic
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Prompt Engineering
The Power of Positive Prompts: What a Tamil Poet Taught Me About AI
Syed Shahul Hameed · Dec 10, 2025
A famous Tamil poet's wisdom about avoiding negative words in songs applies perfectly to AI prompts. Learn why framing instructions positively leads to better results than using restrictions like "don't" and "avoid."
#PromptEngineering
#AI
#SystemPrompts
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Enterprise AI
AWS re:Invent 2025 signals the enterprise AI era of autonomous agents
Syed Shahul Hameed · Dec 4, 2025
Enterprise AI crossed a decisive threshold on December 3, 2025. AWS unveiled its comprehensive agentic AI strategy with Frontier Agents, Nova 2 models, and AgentCore platform—marking a fundamental shift from AI as assistant to AI as autonomous collaborator.
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#AI Agents
#Enterprise AI
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AI & Development
When an AI Coding Assistant Taught Me a Bigger Lesson About the Future of Software Development
Syed Shahul Hameed · Nov 29, 2025
A training session revelation about AI coding assistants. When asked if an AI could read Excel files, the answer surprised me—it couldn't, but it wrote a script to do it anyway. A glimpse into how AI agents are becoming meta-developers, reshaping the future of software development.
#AI
#CodingAssistant
#Future of Work
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Future of Coding
The Terminator Parallel That Explains The Future of Code
Syed Shahul Hameed · Nov 28, 2025
How AI's evolution in software development mirrors the T-1000 from Terminator 2. Exploring three phases—Mimic, Morph, and Infiltration—that show how AI is reshaping code review and the developer's role from code writer to system architect.
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#CodeReview
#Future of Coding
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