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AWS Emulator and the engineer's job when agents write the code


AWS Emulator, launched today and written and tested entirely by agents, gives you a local copy of more than 200 AWS services to test against. Swami Sivasubramanian recalls the high-fidelity simulation his team built to test one of Amazon's earliest distributed systems, and writes about how the engineer's work changes when agents write the code.

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