AI Helps Junior Developers Code Faster. This Prompt Helps Them Build Better.
A junior developer sits down with an AI coding assistant and types something like, “Build me an API for managing customer orders.” A few moments…
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a broad concept that refers to systems that can mimic human intelligence, such as sensing, reasoning, acting, and adapting. Machine learning (ML) is a subset of AI that allows a machine to learn and improve from experience.
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How Do You Integrate Agentic AI with Legacy Enterprise Systems?
Every enterprise has that one system. Maybe it is a claims platform built before REST was fashionable. Maybe it is an ERP customization that only…
AI Won’t End Outsourcing or Entry-Level Jobs, but It Will Rewrite Both
For decades, the technology industry has had a fairly predictable way of handling repetitive work. When a task was important but time-consuming, companies often sent…
Stop Burning Premium Requests: How to Choose the Right GitHub Copilot Model for the Job
There’s a moment every developer knows. You ask an AI coding assistant a simple question like: “Rename this variable and update the related tests.” Then…
Python: Get YouTube Video Transcript from URL for use in Generative AI and RAG Summarization
There are times when it’s necessary to download the text transcript of a YouTube video using Python. This can be done with the help of…
Difference Between Completions and Embeddings in AI Models
Artificial Intelligence (AI) models have rapidly evolved to perform various tasks ranging from text generation to natural language understanding. Among the different types of AI-driven…
Stack Overflow Upset Over Users Deleting Answers After OpenAI Partnership
In this ever changing and evolving world of user generated versus AI generated content, the recent announcement of Stack Overflow partnering with OpenAI recently has…
Run Your Own Local, Private, ChatGPT-like AI Experience with Ollama and OpenWebUI (DeepSeek, Llama3, Phi3, Gemma, Mistral, and more LLMs!)
Over the last couple years the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized the way we interact with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, enabling them…
Enhanced In-Memory Text Vector Search in .NET with SharpVector and OpenAI Embeddings
The need to efficiently search and retrieve documents based on their semantic content is more important than ever—especially when building Generative AI systems that implement…
Agentic AI vs. Traditional Automation: When Should an Enterprise Use Agents?
A lot of enterprise automation projects start with the same optimistic sentence: “This should be easy to automate.” Then the real world shows up. The…
OpenAI Wins Dota 2 Tournament using Microsoft Azure
On August 11, 2017, it was announced that OpenAI beat the world’s top professionals at 1v1 matches of Dota 2 tournament under standard rules. The…
Empowering SREs with Generative AI through technologies like Azure OpenAI
In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, the role of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) is becoming increasingly complex and critical. As organizations strive for higher reliability…
6 Multi-Agent Orchestration Design Patterns Every Developer Should Know
When teams start building multi-agent AI systems, the first instinct is to wire agents together with ad-hoc scripts. Call Agent A. Then call Agent B.…
Terraform: Create Azure OpenAI Service and GPT-4 / GPT-35-turbo Model Deployment
Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service is a fully managed service offering from Microsoft that enables you to host your own instances of AI models from OpenAI,…
Azure Bicep: Create Azure OpenAI Service and GPT-4 / GPT-35-turbo Model Deployment
Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service is a fully managed service offering from Microsoft that enables you to host your own instances of AI models from OpenAI,…
Deploy LiteLLM on Microsoft Azure with AZD, Azure Container Apps and PostgreSQL
Generative AI is evolving rapidly, and developers are increasingly looking for efficient ways to manage multiple LLMs (Large Language Models) using a centralized proxy. LiteLLM…
Run Gemma 4 Locally with GitHub Copilot and VS Code
Local AI development is getting really interesting. For a long time, using AI coding assistants meant relying almost entirely on cloud-hosted models. You installed an…
The Software Dark Factory and the Future of Software Development
The term “dark factory” comes from manufacturing. It refers to a factory that is so automated it can run with the lights off. No people…
Local AI Is Coming for the Cloud AI Business Model
You open your AI coding assistant, paste in a question, ask it to reason through a design, generate some code, fix the code, explain the…
Run DeepSeek R1 Locally for Free with Ollama and OpenWebUI
Awhile back I wrote about how you can run your own local ChatGPT experience for free using Ollama and OpenWebUI with support for LLMs like…