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This Week in AI + Cloud: The Developer Career Fork, AWS/Azure/GCP, and a Benchmark That Changes Everything
AI + Cloud — Week of February 22, 2026
 • Darin Deters
Lockdown Mode, Billable Agents, and the Cost of Autonomy
Between February 10–15, three signals landed that matter if you’re building or buying agents in production:
 • Darin Deters
The Entry-Level Job is Gone. Here’s the new one (2026)
If you’re graduating into tech right now — or you’re early-career and feeling weirdly behind — you’re not imagining it.
 • Darin Deters
Harness Engineering: The Moat Isn’t Code Anymore. It’s Control.
TL;DR: AI made code cheap. The new moat is the harness: constraints, feedback loops, repo legibility, and drift control. If the agent can’t observe it…
 • Darin Deters
The Cloud Plumbing, Security, and Business Model Stories Behind the Agent Stack
Anthropic shipped a bigger brain. AWS shipped identity resilience and runtime controls. Microsoft shipped AI-native security. And the business model…
 • Darin Deters
Agents became infrastructure: Frontier + Atlas, Prism, Codex Harness, Claude, Gemini 3
For a while, AI updates felt like magic tricks.
 • Darin Deters
Vibe coding works best when the user is you
Thailand changed my life. Vibe coding changed how I build. I created my own Thai-learning accelerator to practice daily with less friction.
 • Darin Deters

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