Most cloud sustainability tools are built for sustainability officers. They pull three-month-old billing data, run it through a proprietary model, and produce a PDF that engineers never see. By the time you know your us-east-1 cluster emits twice as much as us-west-2 would have, it's been running for a quarter. The architecture is locked in. The carbon is already burnt. The only moment you can act
Last week I posted that I had no code, just the work that makes the code possible. The PRD, the prompt spec, the architecture doc, the build brief for Kiro. I went into this week thinking I had every decision pre-made. Then I started building. By Block 2, real testing surfaced a phrase the model was using that no court employee would say. "Strip identifiers" sounds reasonable to a developer. To a