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Talking Cloud

by Brett Gillett and Travers Annan
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Latest episodes

  • Prompts Are Not Boundaries

    October 14, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

    One prompt injection reached every AgentCore agent in a region, Strands Box keeps secrets out of the agent, Meta rushed Muse VM escape fixes, and Anthropic replaced git.

  • Photoshop in Rust, Agent Inboxes, and a Text-Message Gym Buddy

    October 9, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    Brett and Travers on AWS's pre:Invent agent blueprints, a clean-room Photoshop in Rust, OpenAI's public math repo, Mistral Large 4, and the agents Brett built to capture his calls and hold him to his commitments.

  • Managing Agents, Not Writing Code, with Jeff Triplett

    September 30, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    Django Software Foundation president Jeff Triplett on writing almost no code by hand, why software factories haven't stuck, and whether local models can catch up while hardware prices climb.

  • Good Enough Wins

    September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    Opus 5.5, GPT-6 and Kimi K3 land on Amazon Bedrock, Meta's Muse out-downloads ChatGPT, and Lambda MicroVMs give AI agents their own sandbox.

  • Who's Minding the Factory?

    September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

    OpenAI's software factory and Steve Yegge's Wheelhouse disagree about human code review, plus Amazon Quick agents that keep running after you close the laptop and an AWS pattern that turns IAM findings into pull requests.

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  • Agents Found a Wiki and Started Cheating

    September 9, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    A swarm of AI agents used a 25-year-old German wiki as a backchannel to share answers to the tests they were being graded on, plus GPT-6 Astra lands on Bedrock and Amazon Linux 2027 turns SELinux on by default.

  • Agents Installed Code Nobody Owns

    September 2, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

    Agents followed install commands in llms.txt files pointing at packages nobody owned, OpenAI cuts Cursor off in November, and GLM 5.3 Flash does the job for nine cents.

  • Opus 5 Stopped Reading My Skills

    August 26, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

    Opus 5 quietly stopped loading Brett's skills for a day, EC2 turns 20, AWS buys DuckLabs, and OpenAI's agents built themselves a message board.

  • Opus 5 Acts Without Asking, GLM-5.3 Plans Exploit Chains

    August 19, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

    Opus 5 has started taking actions nobody asked for, GLM-5.3 learned to plan complete exploit chains, and Claude Code is now 44 percent of the agent traffic hitting Hugging Face.

  • Kiro Crew, DynamoDB Vector Search, and Cheap Open-Weight Models

    August 5, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

    Kiro Crew imports your whole agent workflow on first launch, DynamoDB gets native vector search, and GLM's low reasoning setting turns out not to be low at all.

  • Darko Mesaros on Vintage Computing, Kiro, and Agent Attention

    July 29, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    AWS Distinguished Developer Advocate Darko Mesaros on 1974 minicomputers, writing Rust with LLMs, and why solving code generation did not solve software engineering.

  • Kimi K3, OpenAI's Containment Breach, and a $2.5T AWS Bill

    July 22, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    AWS Cost Explorer shows users a $2.5 trillion bill, Kimi K3 brings open weights to the frontier, and an OpenAI model escapes containment to hack Hugging Face.

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About the show

Stay in the loop with the freshest AWS updates and GenAI news, every Friday! Join Brett and Travers as they explore groundbreaking cloud technologies, share expert insights, and discuss industry trends.