From Manual to Intent: 7 Years of CDK Contribution

Where It All Began: 2019 re:Invent AWS CDK had just gone GA that year with TypeScript and Python support. At re:Invent 2019, I saw AWS present how to contribute to CDK for the first time. There was no AI back then — everything was manual. Clone the entire monorepo, figure out the Lerna project structure, manually build dependent packages, write L2 constructs, write tests, submit a PR. Every step was something you had to figure out on your own. I was blown away. A construct I write, a bug I fix —