Future AWS Agent Engineer? I Didn't Write the Code. Does It Count?
A few weeks ago I wrote about hitting ReAct in the coursework and having a record scratch moment, because I had already met it without knowing its name. That post ended on a section called "Building Ahead of Understanding," which was me making peace with shipping things before I fully understand them. This week I shipped my first chatbot. It passed on the first attempt, on deadline day, on a…
I authored a chatbot for an AWS AgentCore managed harness project. The task was simple: handle three routes, gather bug reports, answer FAQ questions, and redirect to humans for everything else. Initially, the starter files did not align with the project instructions. The evaluation script used a Bedrock Flows client that had been discontinued, and the project relied on outdated versions of required tools.
A classmate discovered the issue after updating the GitHub repo. Despite these challenges, the chatbot passed the evaluation. I added gated QA checkpoints to verify that the bot executed required actions. A bug revealed that the bot incorrectly interpreted FAQ routes, causing two behaviors to merge into one. I corrected the prompt to classify questions by topic instead of answer presence, improving the bot's functionality.
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