Victor Alencar — writing from the field

Field notes on building AI systems in production.

Deep dives on AI, cloud, and software engineering — SageMaker pipelines, Bedrock agents, embeddings, and the messy details in between.

  1. 007

    The Fleet — How to Actually Use AI as a Software Engineer

    A practical playbook for going from "AI as autocomplete" to running a fleet — work loops, workflows, parallel subagents, and multiple Claude Code sessions across tmux panes.

  2. 006

    Building Company-Aware AI Agents on AWS Bedrock with AgentCore and MCP

    How to build an agent on Bedrock AgentCore that connects to your company's tools over MCP, grounds itself in internal documents with a Knowledge Base, and ships as a quick Python chatbot.

  3. 005

    Using LLM Embeddings to Transform Risk Data Analysis

    How embeddings work under the hood and how to leverage them to build intelligent, user-friendly outputs from your trained models and risk datasets.

  4. 004

    Building an End-to-End LLM Pipeline with AWS SageMaker

    How to train and deploy a large language model using SageMaker, Glue, and Athena — from raw data extraction all the way to live inference endpoints.

  5. 003

    Deploying to Netlify - A Beginner's Guide

    Step-by-step guide to deploying your static site to Netlify for free.