For years, consumer tech has followed a fairly simple model: buy, use, replace. Something breaks, the battery stops performing, a better version launches, and the old device ends up in a drawer. That model has been very good at selling new products. The question is how much longer it can keep working in the same way. According to the Global E-waste Monitor 2024, published by UNITAR and ITU, the world generated 62 million tonnes of e-waste in 2022. By 2030, that number is projected to reach 82...

Ask a team that's six weeks into building an AI agent what's hard, and they'll talk about prompts, which model to call, which RAG setup to use. Ask the same team eight months later, after the demo has to survive real users, real edge cases, and a compliance review, and you'll get a completely different answer. Nobody complains about the model anymore. They complain about everything around it. That gap between “we built an agent” and “we run an agent in production” is where most of the...

Before his session at AI Coding Summit, we sat down with Yuriy Bezsonov, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, to talk about what it actually takes to move AI agents from demo to production, why Java is having a real moment in agentic AI, and much more. Read the entire interview below: Q1: 25 years in tech, moving from developer to engineering manager to solutions architect, which role taught you the most? The Solutions Architect role at AWS. As a developer, I learned how to build things. As a...