Adam Gordon Bell is a software engineer, content creator, and community builder currently serving as Community Engineer at Pulumi, where he focuses on infrastructure as code and developer education. He previously spoke at SCaLE 20x on container runtime internals.

 Adam created and hosts the CoRecursive podcast, which explores the stories behind the code. Since 2018, he's interviewed developers behind projects like SQLite, Git, and Erlang,  building a reputation for in-depth technical storytelling.

 Before Pulumi, Adam was Director of Developer Relations at Earthly Technologies, where his technical content regularly reached the front page of Hacker News. He previously worked at Tenable developing cloud and container security solutions. He's been working remotely from Canada since 2011 and is known for combining deep technical knowledge with clear explanations and treating engineers as the heroes of their own stories.

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I Built an AI Running Coach (And My Homebrew Bot Runs My Training)

Generic fitness apps give generic advice. I wanted a running coach that actually knew my training: my long runs, my recovery patterns, even my bad habits. So I built one: a Slack bot that pulls data from Strava, Coros, Peloton, and my own chat logs, feeds it into an open weight LLM running on Groq, and gives me personalized guidance for pocket change.

The bigger idea is simple: this isn’t really about running. It’s about building personal software that understands your life in a way generic apps never will.

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