The operational state of AI and Cloud
Podcast - Cloud Dialogues Podcast The operational state of AI and Cloud

On Cloud Dialogues, I break down the current operating reality for AI and cloud: regional model limits, data governance blockers, the widening adoption curve, and why reliability and sustainability matter as much as cost.

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GPUs, Gremlins, and Growth
Podcast - Logicata Podcast GPUs, Gremlins, and Growth

I joined Karl and Jon on the Logicata Podcast to unpack a stack of AWS news: GPU price increases, MCP-driven modernization with Quiro, new Dublin data centers, my S3 image-serving post, and AWS layoffs, plus a short detour into the "champing vs chomping" debate.

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agent-in-the-loop: replacing humans with more agents
Livestream - livestream agent-in-the-loop: replacing humans with more agents

Part 5 of the Andres Moreno series dives into meta-agents: where they sit in the agent loop, when they make sense in production, and how they act as output guardrails for your primary model.

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Using guardrails with AI agents
Livestream - livestream Using guardrails with AI agents

Part 4 of our enterprise agent series with Andres Moreno covers input/output validation, when to skip the model, and how guardrails keep agents reliable, cheaper, and safer in production.

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AI Agent Tools are APIs
Livestream - livestream AI Agent Tools are APIs

Allen Helton and Andres Moreno talk about why tool design is real engineering: treating tools as APIs for reliability, auditability, multi-tenant safety, and scalable enterprise agent systems.

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Finding the right amount of context for AI agents
Livestream - livestream Finding the right amount of context for AI agents

Part two of our enterprise agent series focuses on context: how much is enough, what happens when you overload the model, and how to keep prompts sharp without slowing everything down.

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System prompting make or breaks AI agents
Livestream - livestream System prompting make or breaks AI agents

Allen Helton and Andres Moreno show why system prompts are the difference between reliable enterprise agents and chaos, using a fraud-detection demo to test prompt depth and context overload.

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How to Stand Out on the Postman API Network
Presentation - Postcon How to Stand Out on the Postman API Network

At POST/CON 25 I share practical ways to make your API impossible to ignore on the Postman API Network, from table-stakes setup and Easy Auth to storytelling, branding, and verification.

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MCP Gives LLMs Full Access: Postman Fixes it
Podcast - Postcon MCP Gives LLMs Full Access: Postman Fixes it

On Between 2 Devs at Postcon, Hannah Seligson and I unpack MCP’s “full access” problem for LLMs, why that’s a trust and safety issue, and how Postman’s endpoint-level controls make agent tooling safer and more practical.

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