Topics

AI

Working with language models, and the tooling that grew around them.

The things between me and the work — editors, shells, agents.

Notes from the parts of Azure that behave differently than documented.

Build agents, provisioning and the unglamorous plumbing that keeps them running.

Servers, boot chains and shells, mostly fixed the hard way.

Certificates, disk encryption and the occasional fight with a reputation system.

Interfaces that fail people, and what the failure says about the org behind them.

Hiring, seniority and what actually makes an engineer useful.

Entity Framework Core surprises, discovered while shipping something else.

Instructions that make a model less annoying to work with.

New models, tried on real work rather than on demo problems.