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AI Engineering 24 Mar 2026

Five Levels, One Ladder

Dan Shapiro's Five Levels ladder maps where the industry actually stands with autonomous coding agents - most of it lower than it believes - and StrongDM's three-person software factory shows what the top rung looks like when someone builds it.

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Applied AI

Agentic AI & Cloud Engineer · multi-agent systems, RAG and MCP on AWS

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C#, .NET 10 and ASP.NET Core microservices on AWS and Azure · Terraform & AWS CDK

Data Engineering

AWS lakehouse · Kinesis, Glue (PySpark), Apache Iceberg, Lake Formation

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