AI agents are all the rage these days. They’re the new shiny ✨ toy that everyone wants to play with 🧸. There’s only one small problem: they’re not real 👻. Yes, you heard me right 👂. AI agents are just a figment of our AI frameworks 🛠️ — really just an anthropomorphism 🧍‍♂️ of a very useful pattern for interacting with LLMs.

“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra

Two weeks ago I became a manager 👨‍💼 again. Throughout my career, I have managed several teams. I was even a director of software development a couple of times. But, I always stayed close to the code 💻, and remained hands-on. This time may be different. I’ll tell you why. But first, let me introduce my team: Devin, Claude and OpenHands… 🤖

“Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes!” ~ Steven Magee

Building optimized container images is a science 🧪 and an art 🎨. You need to know what you’re doing to get it right. In this post, we will build a Python-based 🐍 container image for troubleshooting Kubernetes ☸️️. Along the way, we will discuss some of the best practices for building images, when they apply and when they don’t! 🔍

For the impatient:
https://github.com/the-gigi/docker-images/tree/main/py-kube

“When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.” ~ Idries Shah