Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
Simon Willison shares insights on technical blogging, including his top tip to lower standards and publish despite imperfections.
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Learn how to limit token usage in Microsoft Agent Framework using ChatClientAgentRunOptions to control API costs.
This article covers incident response, circuit breakers, and recovery patterns for rolling back AI agents in production.
Explains common failures when switching to reasoning-tier models in Azure OpenAI and how to avoid them.
Analysis of a system where AI agent failures silently triggered template fallbacks, hiding three critical bugs that made the system appear functional while broken.
Guide on setting up custom MCP servers in Claude and ChatGPT chat interfaces.
How to automate AI prompt testing and compare models using promptfoo for reliable outputs.
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Simon Willison shares insights on technical blogging, including his top tip to lower standards and publish despite imperfections.
Marten adds TimescaleDB support for hypertables, enabling time-partitioned tables with compression, retention, and continuous aggregates via opt-in configuration.
EA Sports releases Madden NFL 27 Arcade Edition for Apple Arcade, optimized for Apple devices with cross-platform play and 120Hz support.
A roundup of podcast episodes covering app experiments, gaming recomps/decomps, and a fun tier list of Euro banknotes.
Explores methods to calculate log(1000!) without modern computing, using math, tables, and manual techniques.
Brent Ozar explains why wide columns in SQL Server tables may not increase logical reads, using database animations and sp_tableoption.
Explores how decoupling in software architecture moves complexity rather than removing it, and why it's a spectrum, not a goal.
Daily digest of IT/tech links: Azure DevOps, Uno Platform, .NET, AI agents, web dev, and more.
Explores treating prompt engineering as an enterprise operating model, covering versioning, evaluation, governance, and lifecycle management for production prompts.
Guide to designing NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet fabrics for AI factories, covering topology, RoCE, congestion control, and validation.
Explores Azure Local as a distributed infrastructure platform using a power grid metaphor, covering architecture, governance, and operational benefits.
Explores how AI ROI can decline in production despite stable model quality, advocating for a living AI value contract to track business case validity.