A spontaneous marathon without water.
5 Claude Code agents running in parallel. And the AI trend that's making RAG obsolete.
In this episode of The Extra Mile Podcast, Puria Izady and Tilman Resch kick off 2026 with personal highlights, AI trends shaping this year, and two challenges they're holding each other accountable for.
What we cover:
- Tilman's spontaneous full marathon on January 1st. No supplements, just human potential
- Why we're both running 5+ AI agent windows in parallel to build our startups
- AI Avatars: How Equis AI is reimagining education, customer support & e-commerce- RAG is fading - Context Engineering is the new frontier for enterprise AI
- Context Graphs: Giving agents the organizational knowledge they need to make decisions
- Steven Covey's 7th habit: Recreation for body, mind, heart & spirit
- Our Marathon commitment: We're running one together this year + plus one extra mile
- The 10 Weeks AI Challenge from AI Daily Brief
Challenges for Next Episode:
1/ Puria: Create a YouTube video on Context Graphs (why they matter, key players, state of the art)
2/ Tilman: Share a framework to 10x your network and build meaningful connections
Whether you're building with AI agents, navigating career transitions, or setting ambitious goals for 2026 - this episode is your kickoff fuel.
🔗 Resources Mentioned:
- Puria on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/user/puria-izady/
- Puria's Build an Agent in 15 minutes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nEuJl1bFI
- Tilman's Vibe Coding Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_v3i3Gjefg
- Tilman's website: https://bright-minds.io
- Tilman's app LuminaOS: https://luminaos.app/
- Pumping Code Newsletter: https://pumpingcode.substack.com
🚀 Connect With Us:- Puria Izady: https://www.linkedin.com/in/puria-izady/
- Tilman Resch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tilman-resch/
The Extra Mile Podcast is hosted by Puria Izady & Tilman Resch – a former AWS Solutions Architect and Tech/AI Sales Team Lead on their mission to help you level up in AI, self-development, and building your future.
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Deploy a production-ready AI agent in under 15 minutes — and learn the manifestation strategies we're using to engineer 2026.Puria Izady and Tilman Resch to talk about vibe coding, context engineering, and the mindset developers need in the AI era.In this episode of The Extra Mile Podcast, we go deep on both the technical and personal sides of building in the AI age.• A 15-minute Bedrock AgentCore deployment challenge (production-ready thinking: scalable, secure, session-isolated)• How Puria approached building and shipping his AgentCore course (and the mindset shifts behind it)• “Renaissance Developer” (Werner Vogels) and what it means for builders right now• Why noisy inputs can degrade output quality (“brain rot” as an intuition) and how to keep your signal ratio high• Context engineering: giving better instructions, better constraints, and better context for reliable results• Vibe coding: building small apps fast (Kiro, Codex, Claude Code) and when not to “gamble” on probabilistic systems• 2025 AI reflections (DeepSeek, infra buildout, models getting more capable)• Our manifestation frameworks for 2026: vision, state, ritual, execution• A public challenge: we set a goal and hold each other accountableWhether you're building AI agents, growing a tech career, or looking for inspiration to start the year strong — this one's for you.🔗 Resources Mentioned:• Puria on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/user/puria-izady/• Puria's Build an Agent in 15 minutes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nEuJl1bFI• Tilman's Vibe Coding Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_v3i3Gjefg• Tilman's website: https://bright-minds.io• Tilman's app LuminaOS: https://luminaos.app/ [now also available as iOS/Android App in Preview]• Pumping Code Newsletter: https://pumpingcode.substack.com?utm_source=chatgpt.com🚀 Connect With Us:• Puria Izady: https://www.linkedin.com/in/puria-izady/• Tilman Resch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tilman-resch/The Extra Mile Podcast is hosted by Puria Izady & Tilman Resch – a former AWS Solutions Architect and Tech/AI Sales Team Lead on their mission to help you level up in AI, self-development, and building your future.🔔 Subscribe & hit the bell so you don't miss the next episode: on AI, tech careers, and personal growth. Got feedback? Drop a comment below – we read every single one.#AI #BedrockAgentCore #VibeCoding #AWS #Manifestation #TechPodcast #ExtraMile #SelfDevelopment #VibeCoding #Manifestation #2026Goals #TheExtraMile #PumpingCode
Two friends, one recurring theme: build fast, stay human, and keep the mission bigger than the mood.In Episode 1 of THE EXTRA MILE PODCAST, we jam on execution, personal transformation, and what “building with AI” looks like when you actually ship. From a defining moment at a Product Leader Symposium, to the habits behind consistency, to practical “vibe coding” stories (and a sugar-free cookie side quest), this is a wide-ranging first episode that sets the tone for what’s coming next.In this episode: Turning points and identity shifts: how a low moment became fuel, what changed, and what it takes to rebuild momentum with intention.1/ Dark work + the extra mile: the unseen habits and decisions that compound over months, and why this matters more than “quick hacks.”2/ From idea to prototype: what it looks like to start building LuminaOS from scratch, balancing speed, clarity, and what you don’t want to overbuild too early.3/ Context engineering (for humans and LLMs): why better outcomes come from better inputs, better framing, and more deliberate communication.4/ Playful shipping: fast experiments like a recipe-to-video generator, “modern manifestation” page concepts, and creative side builds that sharpen your builder muscle.5/ Where AI is heading in real organizations: why adoption is less about hype and more about workflows, incentives, and making tools actually usable.The “challenge” format (recurring): Every episode ends with a concrete challenge we give each other. This time:1/ Tilman challenges Puria: make it dead simple for anyone to run an agent in Amazon Bedrock Agent Core in ~15–20 minutes using Kiro.2/ Puria challenges Tilman: create a short video on context engineering and the mindset behind successful vibe-coded POCs.Keywords you’ll hear: Agentic AI, Amazon Bedrock Agent Core, vibe coding, context engineering, execution, habits, health, building, shipping, enterprise adoption.If you want the next episode to go deeper on a topic (or you want us to test a specific workflow live), drop it in the comments.#AgenticAI #VibeCoding #ContextEngineering #AmazonBedrock #PersonalDevelopment #Habits #Builders