OpenAI announces GPT-5.2, a major AI model update with new variants, improved benchmarks, and advanced features like response compaction.
Martin Fowler's blog fragments on AI writing style, software testing principles, EU regulations for X, and the concept of 'reverse-centaurs' in automation.
Analysis of AI agents' current limitations, showing they complete only 2-3% of real freelance tasks, highlighting the gap between automation hype and reality.
Monthly update on Azure hybrid management & security, covering Azure Arc changes, AKS decommissioning, and AI-driven SQL migration tools.
Osmo's AI-powered 'scent teleportation' breakthrough digitizes smell, enabling new applications in diagnostics, chemistry, and human-computer interaction.
Apple licenses Google's 1.2T-parameter Gemini AI for Siri in a $1B/year deal, a strategic interim step before its own model in 2026.
Analysis of China's Kimi K2 Thinking AI model, a low-cost, open-weight model challenging US dominance in reasoning and agentic tasks.
A critique of AI's role in software development, arguing that output is not productivity and that expertise remains essential for solving real problems.
Explains how Azure API Management can directly publish messages to Azure Service Bus using a managed identity and a specific policy.
A simple, intuitive explanation of public key cryptography using analogies and a number game to explain how to prove a secret without revealing it.
Explains the differences and usage of nullable and required types in C#, covering value types, reference types, and the nullable operator.
Brendan Gregg discusses AI agents trained on his performance engineering work, their limitations, and the ethical implications of creating 'Virtual Brendans'.
A technical article explaining how to randomize the visual order of items in a CSS Grid using CSS custom properties and minimal JavaScript.
Explains techniques for implementing multitenant UI customization in ASP.NET Core, including tenant-specific views and conditional content.
A software architect's humorous account of a client derailing a professional Power BI dashboard project with a chaotic, self-built data model.
A summary of key Azure IaaS and Azure Local announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025, focusing on infrastructure, networking, and sovereign cloud updates.
How to set default code block languages in Mkdocs for automatic Python syntax highlighting in documentation.
Analyzes LLM APIs as a distributed state synchronization problem, critiquing their abstraction and proposing a mental model based on token and cache state.
Announcing elbruno.Extensions.AI.Claude v0.1.0-preview.2, a .NET library for integrating Claude AI models with Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft.Extensions.AI.
An Intel Fellow shares advice on how to give effective, constructive technical feedback to hardware vendors like Intel to influence product development.
