Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan
Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan is one of the founding engineers of AWS SAM CLI and also established the AWS Homebrew tap.
His open source contributions span core components of OpenStack including Poppy, Taskflow, and Zaqar. At AWS, he's also worked on CloudWatch's metric ingestion systems, developing expertise in observability at scale.
Sriram is passionate about creating developer tools that balance power with simplicity, focusing on the intersection of cloud infrastructure, command-line experiences, and serverless architectures.
Session
As AI reshapes our digital interfaces, command lines aren't fading—they're evolving. This talk examines why CLIs remain essential in an AI-driven world and how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) represents their future. Drawing from my experience building AWS SAM CLI, I'll demonstrate how CLIs provide precision and composability that AI alone cannot match. MCP, an open protocol, creates a powerful bridge where AI can leverage CLI capabilities while preserving user control and privacy. Through live demonstrations, you'll witness a new paradigm where deterministic command lines and intuitive AI combine to create superior developer experiences, not the end of CLIs, but their renaissance.