AWS Summit Hong Kong 2025 Dev Lounge: Reinventing Programming - How AI Transforms Our Enterprise Coding Approach

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  Lastmod: 2025-05-09
by Ernest Chiang

Post Title Image (Illustration: AWS Summit Hong Kong 2025 Dev Lounge. Image source: Dorothy.)

Background

I’m honored to have been selected after submitting my talk proposal—thank you to everyone who has quietly encouraged me along the way :) It’s also a privilege to be part of the 10th anniversary of AWS Summit Hong Kong. Thinking back to 2014, when Lenie, Locarno, and I invited Jeff Barr to Taiwan to deliver a keynote at COSCUP, to supporting the AWS Hero program, and now standing here in Hong Kong sharing with developers and technical managers at the AWS Summit Dev Lounge—it truly feels like a fortunate convergence of serendipity and iterative progress. My heart is full of gratitude.

This talk draws from over a year of experience working with traditional industries, streamlining processes, and modeling object states. It also reflects how our own product and technology integration (PTI) teams have adapted our workflows to collaborate with AI tools (with a fair share of pitfalls along the way). By combining Amazon Q CLI with an AI-augmented perspective on existing processes, we explore the mindset of inviting AI to be a new team member to join us. Like onboarding any new colleague, there will be a period of adjustment—but unless we invite this new teammate (or team?!) of AI to join us, that adaptation can never begin.

(Photo credits to Dorothy)

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Agenda

  • About Me
  • Agenda
    • 📋 1 AI Adoption Landscape - The AI Transformation
    • 🛠 2 DLC Through AI Lens - Reimagining Developer Workflows
    • 👨‍💻 3 Humbled Transformation Framework - People, Workflow, System
  • 📋 AI: What & Why?
    • AI Usage in Organizations
    • Investment Trends
    • Workflow Integration
    • Reports from McKinsey and Accenture released in early 2025 highlight the following figures:
      • 100%: Everyone here today
      • 90%: Received or increased Gen AI funding or resources
      • 80%: Using AI in at least one functional unit
      • 40%: Encountered obstacles when adopting AI
      • 20%: Redesigning workflows to adopt Gen AI (This is likely the key!)
      • 1%: Organizations that feel they have achieved full AI maturity
  • 🛠 Developer Workflows
    • Quick SDLC Recap
      • Plan & Design
      • Implement & Test
      • Deploy & Maintain
    • Amazon Q CLI Demo 1: Vibe Coding
    • Amazon Q CLI Demo 2: Architecture Analysis
      • Demo 2: Generated Architecture Diagram
    • Amazon Q CLI
    • SDLC Task Scenarios & AI Tool Mapping Examples
  • 👨‍💻 Rethinking Your AI-Powered Framework
  • AI == Software, in a System
    • AI == Software
    • Systems Solve Problems
    • LLMs Are Only ~15%
    • Average Model + Awesome Workflow
  • Three Pillars of the Humbled Transformation Framework
    • People – Human-centric, problem-solving, strategic thinking, accountable teams
    • Workflow – Daily routines, detailed examination, step-by-step breakdown, fact-based
    • System – Step back, see the big picture, integrate processes, create value
    • This is just a sample framework template. Feel free to adapt it to your own context and experience to make it work for you.
  • Systems Thinking & Strategy
    • Feedback Loop
  • Q&A
  • Thank You & Stay Connected
  • Reference & Materials
  • Do / Delegate / Develop Framework
  • RAG & Knowledge
    • RAG & Knowledge Integration: Core Concepts
    • RAG Architecture Flow
    • RAG Performance Metrics (Example)
  • CI/CD & Observability
    • CI/CD & Observability: Core Concepts
    • CI/CD Architecture Flow
    • CI/CD & Observability Metrics (Example)
  • Business Impact (Example)
  • 4-Week Practical Getting Started Plan

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