Craig Chiffers

AI Is a Tool, Not a Replacement: Why the “Fire Everyone and Plug In a Model” Trend Is Going to End Badly

Craig ChiffersJuly 6, 20260

TL;DR: A company spent three months making real business decisions based on data an AI agent completely made up. This is not a one-off. Replacing humans with...

AI Engineering

Building AI? Here’s where vibe coding actually fits in the process

Craig ChiffersJune 29, 20260

TL;DR: Vibe coding gets a bad rap from people who think the only valid code is code you typed character by character. They are missing the point entirely. The...

AI Engineering

Microsoft Scout: The Always-On AI Agent That Works While You Sleep

Craig ChiffersJune 24, 20260

⚡ TL;DR Microsoft Scout, announced at Build 2026, is an always-on AI agent that works autonomously across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint...

AI Engineering

I’ve spent 4 years building production AI. Here’s what the LinkedIn posts don’t tell you

Craig ChiffersJune 22, 20260

TL;DR: Social media is full of big AI talk from people who have never shipped a line of it. The real work - requirements, architecture, prompt engineering,...

AI Engineering

Claude Fable 5 Was the Most Exciting Model Drop of 2026. Then the US Government Stepped In

Craig ChiffersJune 19, 20260

TL;DR: Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9, 2026 - the first publicly available Mythos-class model and the most capable AI Anthropic has released. It...

Azure AI Foundry

How To: Call an Azure AI Foundry Agent from a Logic App

Craig ChiffersJune 15, 20260

Triggered by a Teams message - no custom connector required TL;DR: This walkthrough shows you how to wire up a Logic App that listens for a Teams message,...

AI Engineering

New vs Old Azure AI Foundry: How it affects your code

Craig ChiffersJune 10, 20260

TL;DR I had a Foundry agent throwing a flat 400 invalid_payload on every call. The message was blunt: Not allowed when agent is specified. It turned out...

Azure AI Foundry

M365 Agent Builder Explained: The Fastest Path to Production-Ready M365 Agents

Craig ChiffersJune 1, 20260

One of the most underestimated tools in the Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem right now is Agent Builder: the in-context agent creation experience embedded...

AI Engineering

Power Platform at Scale: Auditing Every Connector Across Your Entire Tenant

Craig ChiffersMay 21, 20260

TL;DR Before you touch a single DLP policy in Power Platform, you need to know what connectors are actually in use across your tenant. I built a...

Azure AI Foundry

How to Use Azure AI Foundry’s Evaluation Tools Before You Ship

Craig ChiffersMay 18, 20260

TL;DR: Azure AI Foundry's evaluation tools went GA in March 2026 and they're genuinely good. There are three categories of built-in evaluator - quality,...

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