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Updated Oct 7, 2026
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Why LLMs Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong
When LLMs sometimes agree with incorrect claims, it is mostly because their training rewards such behaviour. This reward system is built on several things at once, such as accuracy, helpfulness, politeness, and responses that people like.
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Announcing the AWS Digital Sovereignty Lens for the Well-Architected Framework
October 2026: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Today we’re launching the AWS Digital Sovereignty Lens, a new Well-Architected lens providing customers with extended guidance for designing, building, and operating sovereign workloads on AWS.…
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The LLM Blindspot: Why Models Forget What’s in the Middle of Your Prompt
In this article, we ll look at why LLMs have this bias against middle information.
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Fragments: October 4
In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” replied : we shipped the id…
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Last 3 days: AI Evals, October cohort
Secure your spot in AI Evals in Practice. Enrollment closes in just 3 days! If you ve been thinking about joining, now s the time.
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EP228: How SSH Works
Secure shell is a method to access a remote machine securely over an unsecured network. It starts with a TCP connection from the SSH client to the remote machine (SSH server).
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Deploy Oracle Database step by step on Amazon EVS with FSx for ONTAP
This post provides step-by-step procedures to deploy Oracle Database on Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as NFS datastore storage. You provision storage volumes, mount NFS datastores, install Oracle, and…
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Architect highly available Oracle Database on Amazon EVS and FSx for ONTAP
Learn how to architect a highly available Oracle Database environment on Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This post covers EC2 bare metal instance selection, vSAN and FSx storage tiering,…
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Deploy open source Regional availability tools in your VPC
Deploy AWS Regional availability data as infrastructure you own. Capability Insights for AWS runs a self-hosted dashboard in your VPC that auto-refreshes daily, and Workload Analysis narrows the catalog to the services your account actually runs,…
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Accelerating airline retailing innovation: how Datalex modernized with AWS Experience-Based Acceleration and agentic AI
Datalex, a leader in airline ecommerce, partnered with AWS on a three-day Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) workshop to prove modernization feasibility. Learn how they migrated a core reservation component from EJB/Java 8 to Spring Boot/Java 21, built…
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Why State is the Hardest Thing in Software Design
In this article, we will look at why state is the hardest thing in software development and the multiple strategies that developers can use to manage it.
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Running multi-day AZ evacuation drills with ARC Zonal Shift
Prove your multi-AZ architecture can sustain a real impairment. This post shows how to run a multi-day (48-72 hour) Availability Zone evacuation drill with ARC Zonal Shift across Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL,…
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How MHK built a HIPAA-eligible agentic AI solution on Amazon Bedrock
MHK built the SmartProminence AI Orchestrator, a HIPAA-eligible agentic workflow framework on AWS using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon ECS, and event-driven patterns. It reduced manual medical review effort by 90% and cut new AI feature deployment from…
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How DoorDash Built a Toolbox for AI Agents
In this article, we will look at how the DoorDash engineering team built this gateway and the decisions they made.
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Principles for effective slides
Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe sets out the principles that follow from that…
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Why Do LLMs Lie?
In this article, we will look at why this problem of hallucinations happens with LLMs and the techniques that can help make LLMs more dependable for answering.
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Build adaptive AI interfaces with the AG-UI protocol, agent swarms, and Nova Act on AWS
Learn how to build AI interfaces that automatically adapt to your agents' variable outputs, using the AG-UI protocol for dynamic UI generation, the Strands Agents SDK swarm pattern for explainable multi-agent collaboration, and Amazon Nova Act…
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Bliki: Sensible Default
A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software development such sensible defaults might include things like “use version control”, “separate…
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Fragments: September 29
Simon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires…
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AI Agents Can Think. Now They Can Pay.
I attended a MPP event at Stripe HQ, where I spoke with Emily Sands and Matt Schulman from Stripe, along with Brendan Ryan from Tempo.
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Trading a Cloud Identity for Your Own: Workload Attestation on Managed Compute
By Dhruv Pratap Introduction Organizations that have been around for a while usually run two identity systems side by side. One belongs to the cloud provider: IAM roles, instance profiles, execution roles. The other is your…
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Fragments: September 24
Rob Bowley is “flipping tables in his head” with anger at the current media coverage of the danger of AI killing us all The risk I’m worried about isn’t a future machine deciding to wipe us…
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Healthy Feedback
Human collaboration, like most things, improves with feedback. But it's not obvious how to make feedback effective. Anuja Karnik and Sumeet Gayathri Moghe pass on a bevy of tips for healthy feedback, based on the principle…
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Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror
Introducing composable, module system native and agent friendly command line tools for modern Java development By Danny Thomas, JVM Ecosystem Team Recent work on the Java language to pave the on-ramp has made it easier than…
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I don't like LLMs
I have a lot of mixed feelings about AI and LLM technology. I’m fascinated by its effect on our profession, excited by the potential gains in productivity - and thus the products we could rapidly build.…
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Fragments: September 16
Reports of agentic hacking continue, in this case it happened back in May and it seems OpenAI did not disclose that they were responsible. Simon Willison sees two options: After the Hugging Face and Wiki attacks…
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MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale
By Emma Yanyang Kong , Aditya Deshpande , Asad Abbasi , Bowei Yan , David Fagnan , Ashish Rastogi , Dhaval Patel , Ray Zhang Introduction The Netflix experience is a journey of discovery. Every visual…
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A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers
Samuel Yeboah , Francesco Di Chiara and Mingliang Liu Today, Netflix runs two Flink autoscalers. That is exactly one more than we want. We built the first one in-house years ago, when there was no mature…
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How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…
How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC execution API Authors: Nilesh Mishra and Ajit Koti This is the third entry of a multi-part blog series describing…
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Modeling Device Capabilities for Analytics
by Aarti Laddha , Richard Diaz-Cool , Rishika Idnani , Venkatesh Selveraj Netflix supports a vast and evolving set of features and content types, ranging from 4K streaming and immersive audio to live streaming and cloud…
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GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
Authors: Ying Li , Arjun Rao , Shradha Sehgal Introduction Recommendations sit at the heart of the Netflix experience. Our current production models rely on thousands of hand‑crafted features over users, items, and interactions, along with…
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In-House LLM Serving at Netflix
By AI Platform’s Model Runtime team and Inference team Introduction Most organizations consume LLMs through hosted APIs. Netflix went further — we run the full stack ourselves, from model deployment through inference, inside our existing production…
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