Using AI to Accelerate Intelligence
AI is a transformative technology, let's use it to improve ourselves. AI combined with Knowledge tracing will unlock the next evolution in education.
Engineering · Cloud · AI
Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, AI platforms, and building teams that ship. By Reinhardt van Rooyen .
AI is a transformative technology, let's use it to improve ourselves. AI combined with Knowledge tracing will unlock the next evolution in education.
Direct API calls work fine for agent prototypes and one-off automations. When agents become core to how your system operates — needing to be observable, comparable, and replaceable without cascading changes — a different integration model is needed. Here's the architectural contract that makes it work.
How we designed and deployed an AI agent using AWS Bedrock to automate EC2 instance selection, achieving 95%+ recommendation accuracy across millions of instance types.
A fast green build doesn't mean your software is production-ready. Here's what I learned building deployment systems at AWS scale, and how to build pipelines that actually tell the truth.