Michael Walmsley

@walmsles

AWS Serverless Hero, all round nice guy 😬 All opinions expressed are (c) @walmsles

Melbourne, Victoria

Joined August 2012

Michael Walmsley
@walmsles
Apr 27
MCP = what. Skills = how. Nobody has solved when. New article + open source reference implementation exploring that gap — and why every local model I tested failed. 🔗 Blog: serverlessdna.com/strands/ai-age… 🔗 Repo: github.com/serverless-dna…
Michael Walmsley
@walmsles
Apr 3
Anyone else noticing tension between models. I provided feedback to claude Opus 4.6 from a Gemma model running locally on Ollama. Claude: "Decent review for a local model .... Point 1 is the only actionable one — want me to add a doc comment ..."
Michael Walmsley
@walmsles
Feb 16
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Michael Walmsley
@walmsles
Feb 5
Just published serverless-dna/sop-agents to npm AWS released Strands Agent SOPs in Nov - markdown files that define agent workflows. But they didn't ship any tooling. LLM coordinates agents at runtime. Write markdown get agents. npmjs.com/package/@serve…
Michael Walmsley
@walmsles
Jan 22
AWS Lambda Durable Functions uses AWS-owned keys for checkpoint encryption. Need customer-managed KMS keys for compliance? AWS recommends custom serialization. I wrote a guide with working TypeScript implementations: serverlessdna.com/strands/lambda…