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  {
    "startMs": 16080,
    "text": "Hello everybody. Hello AI engineers. Are"
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  {
    "startMs": 19439,
    "text": "we all having a good time still?"
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  {
    "startMs": 22800,
    "text": ">> I'm having a good time. I mean, look at"
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  {
    "startMs": 24240,
    "text": "me. I'm up here. I'm loving this. Um, so"
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  {
    "startMs": 26960,
    "text": "yeah, thanks so much for joining me. Um,"
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  {
    "startMs": 28960,
    "text": "I want to come and talk to you all about"
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  {
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    "text": "harness engineering and all that kind of"
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  {
    "startMs": 32480,
    "text": "stuff. Um, let me tell you who I am in"
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  {
    "startMs": 35360,
    "text": "case you've not met me before. Um, my"
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  {
    "startMs": 37440,
    "text": "name is Mike Chambers and I'm a senior"
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  {
    "startMs": 40000,
    "text": "AI specialist developer advocate. Um,"
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  {
    "startMs": 42480,
    "text": "and I work at Amazon at AWS. Um, little"
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  {
    "startMs": 47440,
    "text": "bit about like uh how I managed to get"
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    "startMs": 50079,
    "text": "to stand here which is a very exciting"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 52160,
    "text": "time for me. Um so um quite a while ago"
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  {
    "startMs": 56640,
    "text": "in terms of generative AI anyway back in"
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  {
    "startMs": 58800,
    "text": "2023 um I had the amazing awesome"
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    "startMs": 62079,
    "text": "privilege uh to work with Antia my"
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  {
    "startMs": 65119,
    "text": "colleague at the time and now she works"
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  {
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    "text": "for Amazon AGI you've probably seen her"
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  {
    "startMs": 69040,
    "text": "on this stage before um and the amazing"
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  {
    "startMs": 71760,
    "text": "Dr. Andrew Ing on on a course about"
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  {
    "startMs": 74080,
    "text": "generative AI with LLMs um sort of can I"
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  {
    "startMs": 78159,
    "text": "say that we're approaching half a"
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  {
    "startMs": 79600,
    "text": "million enrollments with that? It looks"
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  {
    "startMs": 81280,
    "text": "like that's the case. And on a"
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  {
    "startMs": 82320,
    "text": "three-week course, that's pretty cool."
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  {
    "startMs": 83759,
    "text": "If you can't tell, in that image, um,"
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  {
    "startMs": 86000,
    "text": "I'm playing Transformers with Android."
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  {
    "startMs": 88159,
    "text": "That seemed like a really funny thing to"
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  {
    "startMs": 89920,
    "text": "do at the time. Um, in 2025, I created"
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  {
    "startMs": 92799,
    "text": "an MCP Lambda handler. It's downloaded"
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    "text": "still to this day about 35,000 times a"
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    "startMs": 97280,
    "text": "month. Um, to help people in some of the"
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  {
    "startMs": 99360,
    "text": "simplest ways of getting serverless MCP"
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  {
    "startMs": 102079,
    "text": "serving happening. Um, I'm going to talk"
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  {
    "startMs": 104400,
    "text": "about other things in relation to that"
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  {
    "startMs": 106320,
    "text": "this time. So, we've moved on from that."
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  {
    "startMs": 108399,
    "text": "Um and in 2026, so the AWS is actually"
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  {
    "startMs": 111840,
    "text": "one of the founding members of the"
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    "startMs": 113439,
    "text": "Aentka Foundation, part of the Linux"
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    "text": "Foundation. Um I'm doing a little bit of"
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  {
    "startMs": 118079,
    "text": "work behind the scenes on that. Hope to"
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  {
    "startMs": 119520,
    "text": "do a lot more of that as well. So little"
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  {
    "startMs": 121759,
    "text": "bit about me. Um so as I've been um"
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  {
    "startMs": 126000,
    "text": "preparing for this, oh by the way, I did"
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  {
    "startMs": 128560,
    "text": "reread the abstract for this session and"
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  {
    "startMs": 130560,
    "text": "realized I said I'd be doing some live"
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    "text": "coding and so I will. So all combined"
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  {
    "startMs": 136879,
    "text": "fingers crossed please that that all"
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  {
    "startMs": 138319,
    "text": "works for us. Um but as I've been sort"
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  {
    "startMs": 140800,
    "text": "of traveling around a little bit as I do"
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  {
    "startMs": 142400,
    "text": "and I was at the AI engineers uh session"
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    "startMs": 145200,
    "text": "uh summit uh uh conference in Melbourne"
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  {
    "startMs": 148239,
    "text": "um and took a lot of it in and also from"
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  {
    "startMs": 150959,
    "text": "the beginning of this week as well. I"
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  {
    "startMs": 152640,
    "text": "just wanted to to to summarize some of"
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    "startMs": 155440,
    "text": "the things that I'm seeing and I'm"
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  {
    "startMs": 156640,
    "text": "thinking and I really want to get across"
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    "text": "and and what really matters to me and"
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    "text": "that's this. There are two different"
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    "text": "types of agents. Um, so we talk about"
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    "text": "agents all the time, but I see two"
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    "text": "distinct types of agents. And as I say"
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    "text": "this, it's going to become really"
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    "text": "obvious, but they're the agents that we"
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    "text": "use. And so, you know, this is claude"
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    "text": "code and cursor and kirao and all of"
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    "text": "those types of things. And also things"
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    "text": "that don't just generate code, things"
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    "text": "that we use for productivity and the"
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  {
    "startMs": 184560,
    "text": "like as well. And so those agents we use"
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    "startMs": 187760,
    "text": "in a certain type of way. There's the"
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    "text": "agents that we use. And then on the"
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    "text": "other side of it, we've got the agents"
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    "text": "that we build. And that's actually more"
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    "text": "to do with me and and actually it's more"
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    "text": "to do with this presentation as well."
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    "text": "It's agents that we build and how we"
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  {
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    "text": "think about agents that we build. Um and"
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  {
    "startMs": 203760,
    "text": "and so I do really think that these"
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  {
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    "text": "don't two things are quite separate and"
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    "startMs": 208080,
    "text": "they chain together as well. I might"
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    "startMs": 209920,
    "text": "build an agent that you use and this"
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    "startMs": 212319,
    "text": "still holds true. So token maxing, all"
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  {
    "startMs": 214879,
    "text": "that kind of stuff, go for it if that's"
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    "text": "what you want to do with an agent that"
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    "text": "you use. But with an agent that you"
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  {
    "startMs": 219920,
    "text": "build, think about it carefully. Make"
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    "text": "sure that you're putting it together in"
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    "text": "a way that's going to work for the"
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    "startMs": 225120,
    "text": "audience who's going to use that. So, I"
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  {
    "startMs": 227840,
    "text": "promised that we were talking about"
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    "text": "harnesses and harness engineering. So,"
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  {
    "startMs": 230959,
    "text": "let's define harness. I'm sure I'm not"
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    "text": "the only person to have put something"
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    "startMs": 234080,
    "text": "like this up. I don't usually do this"
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  {
    "startMs": 235920,
    "text": "kind of thing and apologize if it makes"
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    "startMs": 237760,
    "text": "your skin crawl. This is a dictionary"
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    "text": "definition of harness. A harness is a"
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    "text": "set of straps and fastenings used to"
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    "text": "control an animal. But if we took animal"
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    "text": "out of here and put model in there, then"
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  {
    "startMs": 248640,
    "text": "actually it's pretty right, right, that"
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    "text": "that's kind of what a harness is. Other"
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    "startMs": 252879,
    "text": "people have done a much better job than"
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    "text": "just the basic dictionary definition of"
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    "text": "what a harness is. So Lang Chain has got"
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  {
    "startMs": 259040,
    "text": "a article out. You've probably seen"
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  {
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    "text": "stuff like that. Martinfowler.com"
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    "startMs": 262880,
    "text": "although Martin didn't write it. It was"
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    "startMs": 264400,
    "text": "Pitta wrote this. Harness engineering"
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    "startMs": 266880,
    "text": "for coding agents. Agents that we use,"
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  {
    "startMs": 269440,
    "text": "right? So there are other ways of"
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    "text": "looking at harnesses. What about Amazon"
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  {
    "startMs": 273280,
    "text": "then? How do we see um harnesses? Well,"
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  {
    "startMs": 276880,
    "text": "um no, okay, this is the wrong kind of"
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  {
    "startMs": 278800,
    "text": "harness. Sorry, we do have strong"
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  {
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    "text": "opinions on harnesses. I'm going to show"
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  {
    "startMs": 281759,
    "text": "you all of that, but we sell all kinds"
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    "text": "of things. So, in a nutshell, and if you"
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  {
    "startMs": 286560,
    "text": "read those articles, um and if you've"
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    "text": "had the conversations around here at"
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  {
    "startMs": 291280,
    "text": "this event, of course, um a harness, you"
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    "text": "from it, and everything that you have"
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  {
    "startMs": 297919,
    "text": "left, that's the harness. Okay, so let's"
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  {
    "startMs": 302560,
    "text": "think about that in context of an agent"
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    "text": "that we use. And so it's pretty, I"
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    "text": "think, fairly straightforward. I have"
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    "text": "this coding assistant. It's probably on"
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    "text": "my machine. It has access to my files."
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    "text": "And I create a harness or the place I"
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  {
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    "text": "work at has created a harness for me"
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  {
    "startMs": 318800,
    "text": "which contains um how it's going to use"
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    "text": "memory, the skills that I want it to"
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  {
    "startMs": 323360,
    "text": "use, tools and MCP servers to allow it"
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    "startMs": 325680,
    "text": "to go to be able to go and connect to"
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    "startMs": 327840,
    "text": "documentation servers and the like. and"
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  {
    "startMs": 330160,
    "text": "and well set up engineering teams have"
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    "startMs": 333440,
    "text": "got their standards that they've had."
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    "text": "They've had coding standards for"
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    "startMs": 336720,
    "text": "decades, but now they have basically"
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    "startMs": 338720,
    "text": "harness standards, the things that they"
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    "startMs": 340320,
    "text": "want to deploy to everybody's coding"
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    "startMs": 342880,
    "text": "assistance. So, in a nutshell, that's"
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  {
    "startMs": 345520,
    "text": "what it is. I'm not going to talk to too"
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  {
    "startMs": 347120,
    "text": "much more about that. Um, but I do want"
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  {
    "startMs": 349199,
    "text": "to share one QR code with you, and I'll"
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  {
    "startMs": 350880,
    "text": "try and give you a little bit of warning"
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  {
    "startMs": 352000,
    "text": "before I bring QR codes out. This is the"
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    "startMs": 354800,
    "text": "agent toolkit for AWS. This is u"
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    "startMs": 357680,
    "text": "available on GitHub. Of course, it's"
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  {
    "startMs": 359360,
    "text": "free. You can install it and it helps"
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    "startMs": 361919,
    "text": "you if this is what you're doing and"
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    "startMs": 363520,
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    "text": "will one day, grab this toolkit, enable"
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    "startMs": 372000,
    "text": "your um uh agent to to help you in the"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 374880,
    "text": "right direction. It's instructions for"
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  {
    "startMs": 376400,
    "text": "how to install it on pretty much"
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    "text": "everything. And the reason why I get"
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    "startMs": 380160,
    "text": "passionate about this is because I don't"
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  {
    "startMs": 382160,
    "text": "want to see any more slop ops. Um, so we"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 385680,
    "text": "always used to push back against click"
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  {
    "startMs": 387520,
    "text": "ops in, you know, in the professional"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 389280,
    "text": "cloud development space. Clicking around"
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  {
    "startMs": 391120,
    "text": "on the console is great for being able"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 392960,
    "text": "to figure out what's going on, but it's"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 394880,
    "text": "not how you deploy things into"
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  {
    "startMs": 396240,
    "text": "production. We can ask an agent what's"
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  {
    "startMs": 398720,
    "text": "going on, but we don't want to ask the"
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  {
    "startMs": 400319,
    "text": "agent to spin up an S3 bucket, get me an"
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    "startMs": 403440,
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  {
    "startMs": 405759,
    "text": "want the agent to build up our"
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  {
    "startMs": 408560,
    "text": "infrastructure as code which is going to"
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  {
    "startMs": 410319,
    "text": "go and do that so that we still own our"
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  {
    "startMs": 413120,
    "text": "deployments in the cloud. So no more"
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  {
    "startMs": 414880,
    "text": "swap ops. Okay. So that's the agent that"
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    "startMs": 417919,
    "text": "we use. Now let's go and talk about the"
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    "startMs": 419759,
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    "startMs": 421280,
    "text": "going to get into the code as quickly as"
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    "startMs": 422720,
    "text": "I can and we'll do as much as it has"
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    "startMs": 425039,
    "text": "time for. So how do we think about a"
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    "text": "harness in relation to the agent that"
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    "text": "we're building? Exactly the same to a"
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  {
    "startMs": 432639,
    "text": "point. Yes. We still want to have how"
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    "startMs": 434720,
    "text": "are we going to manage the memory? How"
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    "startMs": 436240,
    "text": "are we going to manage the skills and"
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    "startMs": 438000,
    "text": "tools in MCP by the way that that belies"
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  {
    "startMs": 441280,
    "text": "a lot of stuff, right? Because you can"
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  {
    "startMs": 442880,
    "text": "pretty much extend an agent to do almost"
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    "text": "anything you want with a whole bunch of"
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  {
    "startMs": 446319,
    "text": "different types of tools which could be"
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    "text": "via MCP."
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    "text": "But with an agent that I am building, I"
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    "startMs": 453680,
    "text": "need to think about a lot more than just"
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    "startMs": 455840,
    "text": "that. especially if um like at Amazon"
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  {
    "startMs": 458880,
    "text": "and like at cloud scale I'm deploying my"
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    "startMs": 461680,
    "text": "agent out to the masses. So how do I"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 464639,
    "text": "actually manage the loop? How do I"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 467360,
    "text": "manage um scaling payments, memory,"
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  {
    "startMs": 469680,
    "text": "identity, skills, runtime, context"
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  {
    "startMs": 471599,
    "text": "management, the rest of it and I have"
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  {
    "startMs": 473199,
    "text": "left it to the last thing but it should"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 474800,
    "text": "be the first thing that I say."
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  {
    "startMs": 476479,
    "text": "Observability and evaluations super"
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    "startMs": 479120,
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  {
    "startMs": 481680,
    "text": "with this? Do I write all of this code"
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    "text": "down into one container and just deploy"
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    "startMs": 486160,
    "text": "it and scale that? Not really. If I want"
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    "startMs": 488639,
    "text": "to be scaling to thousands of users, I"
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    "text": "need to think about each individual of"
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    "text": "these components and how I'm going to"
  },
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    "text": "scale them out individually. And that to"
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  {
    "startMs": 496800,
    "text": "me is harness engineering. This is the"
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  {
    "startMs": 499919,
    "text": "serious side of stuff. This is the big"
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    "startMs": 501759,
    "text": "stuff that we want to get harnesses"
  },
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    "startMs": 503599,
    "text": "working at real scale. Okay, let's see"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 506319,
    "text": "if this works. I can feel your combined"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 509360,
    "text": "goodwill being sent my way that we're"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 511680,
    "text": "going to try and make some code work."
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  {
    "startMs": 513519,
    "text": "So, I'm here in Kira. This is my IDE of"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 515760,
    "text": "choice here. And I've got a few"
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  {
    "startMs": 517279,
    "text": "different samples that we're just going"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 518560,
    "text": "to race through watching that clock"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 520719,
    "text": "countdown fast. So, um just just make"
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  {
    "startMs": 524560,
    "text": "sure that we're all on the same page"
  },
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    "startMs": 525839,
    "text": "here and hopefully you can all see this."
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    "startMs": 1039679,
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    "startMs": 1059840,
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    "startMs": 1074320,
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    "startMs": 1083600,
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    "startMs": 1085679,
    "text": "choose harness. I skipped out on that"
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  {
    "startMs": 1087600,
    "text": "one and I'm just going to show you that"
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    "startMs": 1089440,
    "text": "quickly now. So, one thing we can do"
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  {
    "startMs": 1092480,
    "text": "instead is I think we can get to the"
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  {
    "startMs": 1096320,
    "text": "I didn't do very much. I just did a"
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  {
    "startMs": 1100320,
    "text": "there's an argument to be made that"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1101919,
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    "startMs": 1103520,
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  {
    "startMs": 1107360,
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  {
    "startMs": 1108960,
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    "startMs": 1110799,
    "text": "than system prompt connect to some MCP"
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    "text": "tools and we've got what we want. And if"
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    "text": "built into agent core. This is the"
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    "text": "configuration for an agent. I just have"
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  {
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    "text": "a simple JSON which is showing me which"
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    "text": "model do I want to use and what system"
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  {
    "startMs": 1127280,
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  {
    "startMs": 1129200,
    "text": "more simpler than that system prompt."
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  {
    "startMs": 1131039,
    "text": "Um, and then this can also be deployed"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1133280,
    "text": "with agent core deploy. So at this point"
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  {
    "startMs": 1135679,
    "text": "we don't have even any agentic code"
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  {
    "startMs": 1138400,
    "text": "either. We can just deploy it straight"
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  {
    "startMs": 1140400,
    "text": "out. If you want to know any more about"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1142160,
    "text": "any of this then please do come and see"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1143760,
    "text": "us down on the booth or see me after"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1145440,
    "text": "this session. I'll be more than happy to"
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  {
    "startMs": 1147360,
    "text": "talk to you at length about this. 18"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1149840,
    "text": "minutes is such a short amount of time"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1151679,
    "text": "for me to be able to talk about almost"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1153360,
    "text": "anything. But this is essentially all of"
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  {
    "startMs": 1157039,
    "text": "these components on here. There's a"
  },
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    "startMs": 1158880,
    "text": "mapping somewhere into something that"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1160880,
    "text": "Agent Core has. I apologize for the"
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  {
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    "text": "colors. It seemed like a good idea at"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1164400,
    "text": "the time. Um, but this is an overview of"
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    "text": "the different capabilities that are"
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    "startMs": 1170400,
    "text": "composable out of agent core. So, you"
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  {
    "startMs": 1172799,
    "text": "can take any of these and use any of"
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  {
    "startMs": 1180400,
    "text": "very happily at the moment, but you like"
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  {
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    "text": "the idea of having long-term memory"
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  {
    "startMs": 1185039,
    "text": "managed for you serverless, then you can"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1187280,
    "text": "just take that part and integrate it."
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  {
    "startMs": 1189039,
    "text": "That's totally something you can do."
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  {
    "startMs": 1190320,
    "text": "Here's a QR code. Sorry, probably should"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1191919,
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  },
  {
    "startMs": 1193600,
    "text": "moving this QR code in just a moment,"
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  {
    "startMs": 1195440,
    "text": "but Amazon Bedrock agent core is that if"
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  {
    "startMs": 1198320,
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  {
    "startMs": 1200559,
    "text": "which I happen to be using for this,"
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  {
    "startMs": 1202400,
    "text": "it's obviously it's it's free because"
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  {
    "startMs": 1204320,
    "text": "it's open source. Um, and it's a um a"
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    "startMs": 1207360,
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    "startMs": 1211039,
    "text": "super powerful, and it's what I use all"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1213679,
    "text": "the time. Thank you so much for being"
  },
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    "text": "with me in this presentation. Please"
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  {
    "startMs": 1218160,
    "text": "feel free to connect with me on"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1219520,
    "text": "LinkedIn. I'd love to carry on the"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1221200,
    "text": "conversation with you. have a fantastic"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1224080,
    "text": "rest of show and have a safe travel as"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1226880,
    "text": "you go home after the event. Thank you"
  },
  {
    "startMs": 1228799,
    "text": "so much."
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