Posts Tagged ai-agents

The Claude Skills I Actually Use for DevOps

The Claude Skills I Actually Use for DevOps

When Claude Code first released skills, I ignored them. They looked like fancy prompts, another feature to add to the pile of things I would get around to learning eventually. Then I watched a few engineers demonstrate what skills actually do, and something clicked. By default, language models do not write good code. They write plausible code based on what they have read. Plausible code turns into bugs, horrible UX, and infrastructure that breaks at 3am.

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Pulumi Agent Skills: Best practices and more for AI coding assistants

Pulumi Agent Skills: Best practices and more for AI coding assistants

AI coding assistants have transformed how developers write software, including infrastructure code. Tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot can generate code, explain complex systems, and automate tedious tasks. But when it comes to infrastructure, these tools often produce code that works but misses the mark on patterns that matter: proper secret handling, correct resource dependencies, idiomatic component structure, and the dozens of other details that separate working infrastructure from production-ready infrastructure.

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Encode What You Know With Neo: Custom Instructions and Slash Commands

Encode What You Know With Neo: Custom Instructions and Slash Commands

Every organization builds up knowledge over time: naming standards, compliance requirements, patterns your team has settled on, and proven approaches to common tasks. Until now, bringing this knowledge into Neo meant repeating it manually each time - specifying preferences, describing how your team works, and recreating prompts that someone already perfected.

Two new features change this. Custom Instructions teach Neo your standards so it applies them automatically. Slash Commands capture proven prompts so anyone on your team can use them with a keystroke.

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Meet Neo, Your Newest Platform Engineer

Meet Neo, Your Newest Platform Engineer

AI coding assistants have transformed the speed at which developers can write and deploy code. Pull request velocity has increased significantly. Feature delivery has accelerated beyond what we thought possible just two years ago. This should be a victory for everyone in the software organization.

Instead, it’s created significant challenges for infrastructure and platform teams.

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