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Service Bus goes confidential, AKS patches kernel exploits, and azd adds multi-language hooks. This week was about hardening production workloads.

MCP-powered secret and dependency scanning ships GA, enterprise migrations get zero-downtime tooling, and VS Code Copilot learns to remember your work.

My mom does bead art. The kind where you sit with a tray of tiny plastic beads and, over hours —...

A trailing comma. A missing bracket. One wrong quote character. These tiny JSON errors silently break...

I’ve been working with coding agents for quite a while now. I’ve been a software engineer for more...

Rubber Duck now works with any model family, enterprise admins get centralized plugin distribution, and hooks can bypass the LLM entirely.

In Post 1 I covered the broad architecture. In Post 2 I went deep on the co-determination matrix and...

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 hits Azure with deeper agentic capabilities, Copilot Studio embraces MCP, and Databricks ships agent-first pipelines.

Pull requests aren't what they used to be. A PR used to be a story. Someone planned a thing, broke...

Microsoft Defender for Cloud hits GA, Copilot code review starts charging Actions minutes June 1, and cloud agent gets 20% faster. Your wallet needs to know.

Hey everyone, Let's talk about something other than frameworks or languages. Let's talk about the...

Visual Studio's April update brings cloud agent integration, user-level custom agents, and IntelliSense priority. The IDE is becoming an agent orchestrator.

Most agent prompts are instructions. Do this. Then do that. If X, do Y. The problem: Instructions...

I didn't ask for a clickable table of contents on my exported AI conversations. But now that I have...

Build an AI-Powered Developer Portal with Backstage and .NET Want to apply AI, not just...

v1.0.40 ships OAuth headless auth for MCP servers, Ctrl+X → B for background tasks, and a rebuilt /research command with orchestrator agents.

This is my repeatable terminal setup for a new laptop. The goal is simple: install the core tools,...

VS Code 1.118 brings remote Copilot CLI control, semantic search for all repos, and aggressive token savings ahead of usage-based billing.

OpenAI's agentic GPT-5.5 model arrives on GitHub Copilot with 82.7% on coding benchmarks, cloud agents start 20% faster, and Actions gains service container overrides.

In the first two posts, we talked about rebuilding trust with product teams and automating CI with...