Large tech companies have been rapidly embracing AI. Amazon in particular has been innovating rapidly with many recent announcements (Nova, Tranium 3, Bedrock Agents, & more), this episode dives into Amazon Q and Agentic AI at Amazon / AWS.

Anoop Deoras is the Director of AWS Agentic AI and previously was a Principal Technologist at Netflix. In this episode we dive into the following areas:

* The progression of AI over ~20 years

* Building recommendation engines before Transformers

* How AWS approached building Amazon Q

* State of Coding Agents Today and Biggest Challenges around CodeGen

* How AI Can Handle Large Scale Codebase Migrations

* What Agents Change Compared to Current Codegen

* Memory and Future Agentic Applications

Where to Find Anoop:

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anoopdeoras/

* Twitter: https://x.com/adeoras

Where to Find Shomik:

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* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/

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Building AI Products at Amazon & Amazon Q - Anoop Deoras (Director, AWS Agentic AI)

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Building AI Products at Amazon & Amazon Q - Anoop Deoras (Director, AWS Agentic AI)