Brett and Travers cover the week in AWS and GenAI, anchored by a cautionary tale about a developer who gave Claude Code full Terraform access and destroyed their production database. They also dig into whether AI tools are collapsing the junior developer pipeline, and why shipping bad code with agents is a choice.

- Custom .NET MCP servers for Amazon Q Developer — and the ongoing confusion about Q vs. Kiro.

- AWS Load Balancer Controller reaches GA for Kubernetes Gateway API — relevant for large multi-tenant orgs.

- Database Savings Plans expanded to OpenSearch and Neptune.

- Simplified IAM role creation directly from service consoles.

- GameLift gets free DDoS protection — essentially Shield for UDP traffic.

- Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports stateful MCP servers on isolated micro VMs.

- Brett's OpenBrain memory system is working — MCP retrieval is solid, Slack integration needs work.

- Early impressions of Kiro's spec-driven development for a personal Kanban board.

- How one developer dropped their production database using Claude Code with Terraform.

- Simon Willison on why AI tools aren't locking us into boring technology stacks.

- The junior developer pipeline question: $100/month AI vs. $80K/year junior dev.

- AI should help produce better code — if it doesn't, that's a process failure.

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