Allen Helton

@jeremy_daly She knows. Smart kid 😂

Father’s Day card from my youngest (18yo). She’s finally starting to understand! 😂

@Lockhead Proud of you buddy, that's some great work!

Five green checkmarks. ✅ I am a bit proud 🥹 Thank you #Kiro (and #KiroWeb) for making my free time enjoyable building fun things at light speed. Exciting times building ❤️

I learned last week you can run code in the chrome debugger in the console tab. For over a decade I've thought that was a read-only tab

I wrote up why caching is more important than ever and how you can add this to your apps in an afternoon. 👇 rdyset.click/c/ktoSJI/

My friends at @betterdbhq recently released two packages on npm and PyPI that make this dead-simple to add to your agent logic with only a few lines of code.

The amount of wasted tokens from repeated tool calls, metadata lookups, and semantically-equivalent messages in AI agents today is staggering. In 2025, I demonstrated how to build idempotent tools and how to design cacheable APIs for agent use. But that wasn't enough. 🧵

@astuyve @boristane

@boristane I'm looking at datadog all day

trying to settle an argument how often do you open the dashboards of aws / cloudflare / vercel / fly / digital ocean / railway / render / <insert-provider-here> ?

I wrote the long version with real scenarios for each vector, and where Teleport Beams helps address these issues for a truly secure agent environment. Thanks to @GoTeleport for sponsoring this post, it was really fun to write. readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.hel…

These aren't identity problems. The best identity model in the world doesn't close any of them. But what does help is moving the agent off your machine entirely. Ephemeral runtime. Fresh environment per task. No accumulated state except what you give it.

I built a local AI agent with its own identity and thought I was doing security right. Boy, was I wrong. Identity is one layer. It doesn't close the four attack vectors that come with running an agent on your machine. 🧵

I'm not speaking this year, but I'll be in the audience. If you care about this stuff as much as I do, come hang out. fandf.co/3QP1tfP/

It tracks with what @spaceliftio (the host) is building: an orchestration platform for both traditional IaC and AI-provisioned infrastructure. AI, IaC, and GitOps combined so devs ship fast and platform teams stay in control.

Last year I gave a talk to the largest audience of my career on a niche topic I'm uniquely qualified to speak about. At IaCConf 2025, I spoke about what happened to Infrastructure From Code in front of ~650 people. 🧵 // sponsored by @spaceliftio