At MCP Dev Summit, AWS senior principal engineer says that MCP is still by far the most popular way to connect agents at Amazon. Skills aren't replacing it but combined in "agent configurations" that are distributed across the company. News of MCP death is greatly exaggerated .
- Best explanation I've heard for when to use sub-agents, from @trq212 Agent SDK workshop on YouTube: "when you need to do a bunch of work and return an answer to the main agent." Particularly when you need to process a lot of data that you don't want cluttering up the main
- I wrote about a workflow for combining language models like Gemini or Claude with Nano Banana Pro to create much better landing pages than just a coding agent would. Nano Banana is a huge step up in image model's ability to design.
- Here is a great workflow for doing landing page design with Nano Banana Pro, which is MUCH better than previous image models at details like text and layout, making it an amazing UI tool. 1) Use a system design prompt that encourage design thinking, committing to a unique
- Nano Banana Pro is one of the best UI design tools ever created. The trick is to COMBINE code/text models with image models, work with Claude / Gemini to come up with a design plan (aesthetic, typography, hierarchy), iterate on ASCII Mocks, then feed that plan to Nano Banana for

