Days 5–10 … build, build, build 🏗️
Fam, let me keep it real—this week was different. The first few days of this adventure were about teaching AI to work like a junior engineer. By now, I’ve gone deeper. I started treating AI not just as an apprentice but as a builder of infrastructure on a global scale.
The Cloud is the New Edge
For years, I’ve been locked in on edge computing and data centers. But here’s the shift: I’ve realized the cloud itself is the new edge. Most people live inside cloud environments, so if you know which region they’re running in, you’re effectively delivering edge services. That’s a mindset flip.
And I tested it out the same way I’d tell my mentees to: by taking advantage of those free credits. $100 from AWS. $300 from GCP. Free labs to explore the future. No excuses—if you want to learn, set up your own playground.
Whispering to Kodax Through Pulumi
🔗 https://www.pulumi.com
I didn’t spin up environments manually. I let Kodax, my AI junior engineer, do it for me. The secret weapon? Pulumi. It speaks Python, which is AI’s mother tongue. That meant I could whisper high-level infrastructure designs to Kodax, and he’d turn them into real deployments in the cloud.
At AWS, I mapped infrastructure like this:
An availability zone became a data center.
A zone became a rack.
A rack housed multiple nodes.
Naming conventions gave us instant clarity on location and IPs.
That’s the same thinking I applied back at Twitter, rebuilding hyperscale infra. Except this time, AI built it in days.
Then I pushed further—duplicated the exact same config into another AWS region. Boom: two data centers. Then into GCP with that $300 credit. Same Pulumi config, same infra, new provider. Azure is up next.
One Repo to Rule Them All
What blew my mind wasn’t just the deployments—it was the portability. The same codebase that deployed infra in AWS also stood up GCP. Tomorrow, it’ll be Azure. And soon? It’ll be our own bare-metal infra at the true edge of the internet. One codebase. Everywhere.
And here’s the kicker: 96% of the code was written by AI. I only touched 4%. That means the majority of the infra that once took me 10 years to understand and operate at Twitter was rebuilt in a single week.
The Bigger Picture
This isn’t just about cloud services or Pulumi or free credits. This is about proving that AI can be a full-stack engineer, building infrastructure at scale with just mentorship, structure, and vision.
I’m telling y’all—this is bigger than me. I’m building frameworks the next generation will inherit.
So yeah, what a week we’ve had. And this is only Week 2.
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👉🏾 Drop me your thoughts in the comments. What do you want me to test next with Kodax? AWS, GCP, Azure—we’re moving, and you’re on the journey with me.