Faster code, same bottlenecks: notes from DevOps Summit Sydney

What DevOps Summit NSW 2026 reminded me: AI and automation only speed up delivery if you fix the stuff around the code, not just the code.

How I Turned Kiro CLI Into a Principal-Level Engineering Partner with Skills and Steering Files

I'm a Principal Platform Engineer at a financial services company. I use Kiro CLI 8+ hours a day — not as a code completion tool, but as my primary engineering interface. Over the past two months, I've shaped it into something that catches production bugs before they