AI Infrastructure

from a London bus and Vincent in Vietnam! Kai is attending https://www.ai.engineer/europe/schedule

Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?usp=sharing

Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Automating AI Agents 04:20 - Auto Research Role 07:15 - Building CLI Tools 09:50 - AI Behavior Control 13:00 - Voice & AI Transcription 15:45 - GitHub Security 18:50 - Multi-cloud Management 22:50 - Disaster Recovery Testing 28:30 - Cost Optimization 33:00 - Terraform vs CDK 38:45 - AI Evaluations 44:00 - AI in Enterprise 50:00 - Ethical Considerations 55:00 - Kubernetes Strategies 58:00 - DevOps Myths 62:00 - Cloud Security Insights 66:00 - Closing Thoughts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408205 Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ulxx2eqh7qsr

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.nimhcz973asx https://dabase.com/podcast/ for a summary

Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0 https://dabase.com/podcast/ for a summary

The elephant in the room is Jira. How can we adopt AI in a structured way in an Enterprise? https://dabase.com/podcast/

Do please Rate and share to keep us rewarded / motivated to share! Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?tab=t.0

Previous 2025 vlog: https://youtu.be/QQB6juzzIZU?si=5mrQi_ox8ds0ENp2 I'll add more links as I find a decent internet connection! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxzghm3Fdj8&t=10718s is Adam Jacob's AI talk CDK plan we were talking about: https://gist.github.com/kaihendry/ce6574744e161d4ba8ba283b8dada85c

I show https://clawd.bot/ & WhatsApp integration. We touch how type checking is not done enough in Python https://docs.astral.sh/ty/ We speculate what's the "Next big thing" in Infrastructure... better state management with https://stategraph.com/? https://handy.computer/ dictation (speech to text) is shown We try capture what the the AI lifecycle looks like right now. Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?usp=sharing Kai will be at https://fosdem.org/2026/ & https://cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/ next week ... say hello if you see me!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoc-0L1o1Cyxtgatb9fN_ZGBGbshZIb9BTzwEj0C4Gc/edit?usp=sharing

https://x.com/kaihendry/status/2009678360046420110 https://docs.astral.sh/uv/llms.txt

https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2008200878633931247 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown https://github.com/kaihendry/skills 00:00 Ralph Wiggum 01:37 Gas town 13:21 Testing 16:26 Playwright demo 33:41 Ralph Wiggum memes 36:37 Omarchy 41:11 Skills for AI

Vibe coded Chrome extension to show Amazon UK Data First Available: https://github.com/kaihendry/date-first-available My failed thought experiment to get AI to setup my PI https://github.com/kaihendry/ai-pi My blog about how I got my Pi setup as a VPS host: https://dabase.com/blog/2026/machinectl-trixie-pi/ Markdown to Confluence POC https://github.com/kaihendry/md-confluence https://x.com/trq212/status/2005315275026260309 promotes the AskUserQuestionTool idea Kiro seminar (PAID) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hands-on-spec-driven-development-workshop-tickets-1812679024759?aff=so%E2%80%A6 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04

https://developers.googleblog.com/conductor-introducing-context-driven-development-for-gemini-cli/ Clip is from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvIs9y1uog Don't paste screenshots of terminals, use: https://tools.simonwillison.net/terminal-to-html https://adrianhall.github.io/posts/2025/2025-12-06-spec-kit.html https://www.sanity.io/blog/you-should-never-build-a-cms

The Cloud is too complex, we need a programming language, we need abstractions. Terraform isn't enough for AWS.

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/commit/a0c56138e2b4c7b6c128bd7ba08a8e317df852af Trying to plot the changing Infrastructure landscape.

https://www.loom.com/share/e2ab7a2dc7354bff88c9f528398e1bbf Do please comment & Europeans must go to these FREE events: https://fosdem.org/2026/ https://cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/

https://dabase.com/podcast/ https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/discussions/430 Goredo: http://www.goredo.cypherpunks.su/

https://github.com/addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips

Chatting about @t3dotgg turning onto @anthropic-ai Phone a farmer https://www.youtube.com/live/nW7-igJA798 https://www.youtube.com/live/cMSprbJ95jg for Steve Yegge about an hour in. Beads skill that Vincent didn't realise was in the context: https://github.com/kaihendry/dabase.com/blob/main/content/tips/web/bug-reporting-template.md

https://youtu.be/cMSprbJ95jg?t=3675 If you're using an IDE you're a bad engineer!

https://github.com/vincenthsh & https://github.com/kaihendry/ - two infrastructure engineers talking about Instructure sprawl 00:00 AWS Account organisation https://github.com/kaihendry/actions/blob/main/accounts.json 20:00 System Initiative 29:00 Cloud abstractions are needed 30:40 Danger of clickops 37:31 Labels vs Tags 40:10 Integration points

00:00 Why move to Vietnam? 33:34 Spec Kit and https://github.com/steveyegge/beads? 44:49 Demo of the Grid

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudcontrolapi/ https://s.natalian.org/2025-10-19/CommunityDay_Malaysia_2025.pptx

https://github.com/github/spec-kit Spec-kitting an existing project: https://youtu.be/SGHIQTsPzuY?si=19uhEGXQv-leUh9J https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html WDYT? Comments below!

Vincent De Smet is working on https://terraconstructs.dev/ Opentaco trailer from https://www.linkedin.com/posts/izalutski_today-i-am-excited-to-announce-diggers-biggest-activity-7376635476264374272-O2Cp/ (without the copyrighted aggressive music) https://github.com/diggerhq/digger/blob/develop/taco/agents_context/opentaco-case.md#how-will-this-thing-make-money