James Ward

@JamesWard

My book: EffectOrientedProgramming.com | My podcast: @HappyPathProg | @AWSCloud Agent Experience | @AgenticAIFdn TC | My opinions are mine

Crested Butte, CO, USA

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Joined February 2007

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James Ward
@JamesWard
Jun 26
Still cooking! A few more new projects in the past 2 months: - ZIO HTTP MCP client/server library: github.com/jamesward/zio-… - ZIO Bedrock library: github.com/jamesward/zio-… - sbt revolver alternative for sbt 2.0: github.com/jamesward/sbt-… - sbt webjars plugin: github.com/webjars/sbt-we…
James Ward
@JamesWard
Apr 16
The past 3 months have been the most intense and fruitful of my entire career. I've been cooking, coding, vibing, architecting, designing, imagining, and delivering production systems while teaching developers around the world how to build enterprise-grade AI systems. I'm on my
James Ward
@JamesWard
3h
Using AI / Kiro to create 3D printable models is my new hobby but for actually useful stuff. Here is a weird example... I'm a long time ThinkPad user and I love the TrackPoint but years ago I got a new P1 and they changed the TrackPoint connector stem & depth. My favorite cap has
James Ward
@JamesWard
Aug 14
@Ask_Spectrum y'all really gotta fix your network. Going from Gunnison to Denver shouldn't add 55ms.
James Ward
@JamesWard
Aug 12
Most AI agents waste a lot of tokens because they: 1) send exactly what they get from tool calls to the LLM 2) workflow sequential tool calls in an LLM loop In this week's Coffee & Software livestream I demonstrated two techniques to significantly reduce token usage: tool call
James Ward
@JamesWard
Aug 11
This week I moved teams at AWS so that I can focus more on building Agent Experience around the SDKs, CLI, and Docs. I'm super excited to get back a more engineering focused role and enable AWS users to be amazingly productive in their AI agents! I'll continue representing Amazon