🖧 Leveraging Agentic AI, Inspiring 6,000+ Tech Minds & Trends Shaping Innovation

I promise you haven’t seen it done like this!

Greatness.

Yeah, this pretty much sums up the wave #TheTechHustle has been on this entire year.

I just want y’all to know that the wins keep getting bigger and better—that’s one of the main reasons we’re true to this hustle!

And while we’re on the topic of making things happen, this past month came with the perfect lineup of opportunities that kept our minds on the mission.

In this installment of the #TTH Newsletter 📰, I’ll share some highlights from my latest series, “My Last 30 Days with AI.” Put simply, this is my attempt to thoroughly understand what AI is capable of when it’s pushed beyond the surface.

From there, we’ll talk about my experience hosting CodePath’s Emerging Engineers Summit 2025 in September. This event attracted more than six thousand attendees and served as the last leg of the organization’s national conference. Adding to that, I’ll share my appreciation for our longstanding partnership with CodePath—a collaborative relationship we truly value.

And before I let you go, I’ll give you a quick rundown of a few topics we’ve covered in the latest #TTH podcast episodes.

I hope y’all are still trying to level up, because that’s always the goal.

Welcome and welcome back, family.

Start the clock…

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🤖Tapped In with Agentic AI 💻

BobbyD 👨🏾‍💻:

AI this, AI that.

It’s safe to say that by now we know a thing or two about what AI is capable of. We’re hearing the stories, witnessing the innovation firsthand, and watching the use cases in real time.

All that’s great, but y’all know me! I’m an engineer through and through! A hands-on type of person, and I’ll never pass up an opportunity to experience something for myself.

In this case, I wanted to understand how AI really works (from an engineer’s perspective).

The gameplan: I set out on a mission to leverage agentic AI, giving it the task of recreating a hyperscale-inspired system designed to schedule GPU workloads on the edge of the internet.

I accomplished milestones in hours and days for tasks that would have taken weeks and months pre-AI. And week after week, I documented the challenges, the lessons, and the wins:

• Needs and expectations required that I moved away from chatbots and into workspaces

• Discovered OpenAI Codex —> Codex Cloud; used it to build my junior engineer, _Kodax

• Got to work on writing my specs, the blueprint _Kodax would follow to deliver on the goal at hand

• Paired the capabilities of _Kodax and _Jules (my advisor/strategist AI) to ensure we

  reached the next rung in structure + mentorship

• Introduced Pulumi (deployments), Ansible (configuration), and Atlas (inventory system) to the mix

In a little less than a month, I was able to:

1. Successfully deploy resources across AWS and GCP;

2. Build a configuration management layer with Ansible; and

3. Develop Atlas, a Tier-0 host database service with its own Python + Go client.

Talk about reaching highs, but never reaching limits! 🎶

It really is time for y’all to get tapped into this AI playbook, peeps. Artificial intelligence is sure to become a central force in our future—assuming it isn’t already at that point.

Progress in the Process:

• Chapter 1 (Day 0): Let’s Talk About My Last 30 Days in Tech

• Chapter 2 (Day 1): Whispering to AI – Mentoring _Kodax

• Chapter 3 (Days 3–5): Specs, Standards, and the Birth of _Jules + _Kodax

• Chapter 4 (Days 5–10): What a Week We’ve Had – Cloud as the New Edge

• Chapter 5 (Days 11–15): Atlas Rising – Connecting Pulumi and Ansible

• Chapter 6 (Days 16–20): Building a Global Cluster with AI

In this series called ‘My Last 30 Days with AI,’ I’m exploring the power and potential of agentic AI. Catch up on these chapters (above) to see where I am in the process and what happens next.

TECH DREAMS: It’s one thing to talk about it. It’s a whole other to be about it. Join me and 290+ of your peers in the #TTH Skool Community, and let’s get to work.

🎤#TTH & CodePath: EES 2025 + Partnership

#TheTechHustle has put yet another check on the board.

This time, your boy stepped in to host CodePath’s Emerging Engineers Summit 2025, a virtual event aimed at preparing early-career tech talent for the road ahead through learning and networking.

The outcome was exactly what we needed it to be: Over 6,000 participants joined the virtual summit, making it one of the largest CodePath EES events to date. We definitely had the best of the best in attendance—students and speakers. Not to mention, there was an entire three-day schedule of keynotes, breakout sessions, and networking opportunities.

My only question is, were you there?

#TTH x CodePath

The team and I have to give a very special shoutout to CodePath for empowering emerging engineers and providing a platform where the voices of underrepresented technologists can be amplified. Their mission centers on democratizing tech education as well as fostering diversity in engineering roles.

#TheTechHustle has been fortunate enough to call CodePath a partner for the past few years, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. In our role, we navigate between amplifier, host, and serving as a bridge to connect top talent to opportunity.

If you aren’t already connected with CodePath, I invite you to explore their programs and courses and definitely make plans to engage with #TTH at upcoming EES events.

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▶Latest from #TheTechHustle Podcast

Here’s a quick recap of our Tech Talk discussions from the past few episodes.

#TheTechHustle Podcast - Episode 69:

Honestly, AI continues to amaze me. In this episode, I share an example of just how fast we‘re able to develop and solve problems when utilizing AI. Tune in and listen to my experience with building a secure file-sharing application called FShare by using OpenAI’s tools. And get this: it only took 15 minutes.

I also share my opinion on how integrated development environments (IDEs) are becoming obsolete in the age of agentic AI.

#TheTechHustle Podcast - Episode 70:

Never thought we’d see the day when people become emotionally invested in AI.

Yet, here we are.

If you have a few minutes, listen as I discuss the unexpected (yet fascinating) psychological response to the release of ChatGPT-5. To sum it up, many users feel the new model lacks ‘connection’ and ‘personality,’ and therefore don’t trust it the way they did GPT-4.

This speaks heavily to the ethical complexity of AI dependence.

#TheTechHustle Podcast - Episode 71:

In this Tech Talk, I go into a few details about the various ways major tech earnings are reflected in the AI boom.

Let me put it like this: the dynamics of advertising are changing, and AI has a lot to do with it. Listen to our convo about production costs and what content generation looks like now that AI is involved, then let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Make sure you’re tuning in weekly to hear us discuss the latest and greatest AI tools and topics. Also, I’ll continue to demonstrate the productivity gains I experience while partnering with AI.

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Not Goodbye, Just See You Later… 👋🏾

I’ll wrap this one up by saying that we really appreciate y’all, our #TTH fam.

What we do means a lot, but who we do it for means even more.

Hopefully there’s some info you found valuable in this newsletter. Take what resonates and use it to get you started on the next phase of your tech journey.

And remember: it’s always getting better! Let’s keep this thing going—the culture needs us!

Until next time! Peace…✌🏾

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