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AI Agents, Explained: A Guide for Beginners

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: | Modified:

“AI agent” gets used loosely — this guide fixes that. A plain-English explainer for beginners and IT pros: what agents are, how the perceive-reason-act loop works, key terms like tools, skills, and MCP, when NOT to use one, plus practical cost and security guardrails.

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Understanding the CLAUDE.md File: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting More Out of Claude

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: | Modified:

Tired of re-explaining your project to Claude every session? A CLAUDE.md file gives Claude persistent context that loads automatically. This beginner’s guide covers what it is, where the files live, the load order, a sample file, and how to keep it lean.

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Self-Managed S3 Buckets for Lambda Code: You Finally Own the Artifact

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: | Modified:

Lambda has quietly kept a second copy of your deployment code all along. A new setting lets your own S3 bucket be the single, auditable source of truth.

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Lambda MicroVMs: When Functions Aren’t Enough and EC2 Is Too Much

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: | Modified:

Browser notebooks and AI coding sandboxes need a live session between requests. Lambda can’t hold state, EC2 is overkill. MicroVMs sit right in that gap.

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Know about Amazon GuardDuty Investigation: AI-powered security analysis

By Shrikant Lavhate | Published: | Modified:

Security teams burn hours pivoting through CloudTrail and VPC flow logs per GuardDuty finding. A new AI agent now runs that whole investigation for you.

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