# Kam Lasater | Professional Explorer

> A personal site by Kam Lasater covering software, entrepreneurship, and personal projects.

This file highlights the primary entry points and reference material so language models can efficiently explore the site's content.

## Pages
- [Blog](https://kamlasater.com/blog/)
- [Blog Archive](https://kamlasater.com/blog/archive/)
- [Blog Authors](https://kamlasater.com/blog/authors/)
- [Home](https://kamlasater.com/)
- [Lets Build and AI Agent](https://kamlasater.com/talks/agents-2025/)
- [Talks](https://kamlasater.com/talks/)

## Blog Posts
- [How to Learn AI](https://kamlasater.com/blog/how-to-learn-ai/)
- [Types of AI Software Systems](https://kamlasater.com/blog/types-of-ai-software-systems/)
- [Crawl Walk Run](https://kamlasater.com/blog/crawl-walk-run/)
- [Findings from giving 15 LLMs personality disorder tests](https://kamlasater.com/blog/findings-from-giving-15-llms-personality-disorder-tests/)
- [Junior Developers - Best of Times Worst of Times](https://kamlasater.com/blog/2025/06/09/best-of-times-worst-of-times/)
- [On Vibe Coding](https://kamlasater.com/blog/2025/03/18/on-vibe-coding/)
- [AI Engineer Summit - Some Thoughts](https://kamlasater.com/blog/2025/02/20/ai-engineer-summit-thoughts/)
- [AI Engineer Worlds Fair - Some Thoughts](https://kamlasater.com/blog/2024/06/27/ai-engineer-conference-thoughts/)
- [AWS Resource Tags](https://kamlasater.com/blog/2024/05/28/aws-tagging/)
- [Cyclic is Shutting Down](https://kamlasater.com/blog/cyclic-is-shutting-down/)
- [The Answer is to Deploy Now](https://kamlasater.com/blog/deploy-now/)
- [Using Slack as an Searchable Event Stream Database](https://kamlasater.com/blog/slack-as-searchable-db/)
- [2023 - A Look Back](https://kamlasater.com/blog/2023/)
- [Managing Service Account JSON Files or Files with Secrets in Nodejs](https://kamlasater.com/blog/managing-service-account-credentials-json-files/)
- [The Unbuilt Software Trap](https://kamlasater.com/blog/the-unbuilt-software-trap/)
- [Users Are the Best Feature](https://kamlasater.com/blog/users-are-the-best-feature/)
- [The Right KPIs](https://kamlasater.com/blog/the-right-kpis/)
- [One Ship Sails East](https://kamlasater.com/blog/one-ship-sails-east/)
- [Talking About Failure](https://kamlasater.com/blog/talking-about-failure/)
- [How to Get Your First Developer Job](https://kamlasater.com/blog/how-to-get-your-first-developer-job/)
- [How to Pass 9 AWS Certifications in 14 Months](https://kamlasater.com/blog/how-to-pass-9-aws-certifications-in-14-months/)
- [How to Fail at Serverless: Serverless is Stateless](https://kamlasater.com/blog/how-to-fail-at-serverless-stateless/)
- [11 Command Line Tools I Couldn't Work Without](https://kamlasater.com/blog/11-command-line-tools-I-couldnt-work-without/)
- [6 Command line Tools All Experts Know](https://kamlasater.com/blog/6-Command-line-Tools-All-Experts-Know/)
- [How to Debug](https://kamlasater.com/blog/how-to-debug/)
- [The VC Business Model and Why VCs Invest](https://kamlasater.com/blog/the-vc-business-model-and-why-vcs-invest/)
- [Dad's Advice for How to Live](https://kamlasater.com/blog/dads-advice-for-how-to-live/)
- [Technical Debt: A Field Guide](https://kamlasater.com/blog/technical-debt-a-field-guide/)
- [How to go from 0 to 1 - Growing users for a new product or service](https://kamlasater.com/blog/how-to-go-from-0-to-1/)
- [Write Shitty Code - why you should and feel good about it](https://kamlasater.com/blog/write-shitty-code/)
- [AWS S3: Why sometimes you should press the $100k button](https://kamlasater.com/blog/aws-s3-why-sometimes-you-should-press-the-100k-dollar-button/)
- [We sound like idiots when we talk about technical debt](https://kamlasater.com/blog/we-sound-like-idiots-when-we-talk-about-technical-debt/)
- [AWS Tools Suck](https://kamlasater.com/blog/aws-tools-suck/)
- [AWS Budget Alerts Based on Cost](https://kamlasater.com/blog/aws-budget-alerts-based-on-cost/)
- [Why I Started Cyclic](https://kamlasater.com/blog/why-i-started-cyclic/)
- [AngelList Roll Up Vehicles: Why, What and How](https://kamlasater.com/blog/angellist-roll-up-vehicle-why-what-and-how/)
- [Book: 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History](https://kamlasater.com/blog/2016/04/15/1864-lincoln-at-the-gates-of-history/)
- [Book: How to Create a Mind](https://kamlasater.com/blog/2016/04/06/how-to-create-a-mind/)
- [Adding Syntax Highlighting to Anki Flash Cards](https://kamlasater.com/blog/2016/03/07/anki-syntax-highlighting/)
- [Book Notes: Combat and Other Shenanigans](https://kamlasater.com/blog/2016/01/04/combat-and-other-shenanigans/)
- [Book Notes: The Power of Habit](https://kamlasater.com/blog/2016/01/01/the-power-of-habit/)

## Optional
- [All Blog Tags](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/)
- [Blog Index Page 2](https://kamlasater.com/blog/page/2/)
- [Blog Index Page 3](https://kamlasater.com/blog/page/3/)
- [Blog Index Page 4](https://kamlasater.com/blog/page/4/)
- [Blog Index Page 5](https://kamlasater.com/blog/page/5/)
- [Tag: Advice](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/advice/)
- [Tag: Agents](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/agents/)
- [Tag: Ai](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/ai/)
- [Tag: Aws](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/aws/)
- [Tag: Book](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/book/)
- [Tag: Cli](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/cli/)
- [Tag: Cloudformation](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/cloudformation/)
- [Tag: Cyclic](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/cyclic/)
- [Tag: Cyclic (Page 2)](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/cyclic/page/2/)
- [Tag: Engineering](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/engineering/)
- [Tag: Failure](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/failure/)
- [Tag: Growth](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/growth/)
- [Tag: How To Fail At Serverless](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/how-to-fail-at-serverless/)
- [Tag: Poetry](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/poetry/)
- [Tag: Product](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/product/)
- [Tag: Serverless](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/serverless/)
- [Tag: Software](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/software/)
- [Tag: Software Process](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/software-process/)
- [Tag: Startups](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/startups/)
- [Tag: Tech](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/tech/)
- [Tag: Tech (Page 2)](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/tech/page/2/)
- [Tag: Technical Debt](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/technical-debt/)
- [Tag: Vc](https://kamlasater.com/blog/tags/vc/)