How to Use Azure AI Foundry’s Evaluation Tools Before You Ship
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,...
Author: Craig Chiffers
Snr Teams and Copilot SME at Microsoft. I work with engineering and our customers on Teams Phone, Teams Rooms devices, Intune and security.
Copilot Cowork: Microsoft’s AI Just Stopped Talking and Started Doing
TL;DR - Microsoft Copilot Cowork is the moment Microsoft 365 Copilot stops being a smart assistant and starts being an actual coworker. You describe the...
The LLM Arms Race Has a Scoreboard. Here’s What It’s Telling You.
TL;DR - The SWE-bench leaderboard is the closest thing we have to an objective measure of which LLM is actually useful for software engineering. Right now,...
The laziest take in AI is technically correct
Opinion · AI · LLMs It's just next token prediction. So why does it feel like reasoning? TL;DR - LLMs are "just" next-token predictors at the...
Installing the Power CAT Copilot Studio Kit: A Step-by-Step Guide
TL;DR: Installing Power CAT is a multi-step process involving admin role setup, enabling the PCF framework, installing the Creator Kit as a dependency, and...
Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry: Understanding the Differences
TL;DR: Microsoft 365 Copilot is a user productivity license. Copilot Studio is an orchestration and channel layer. Azure AI Foundry is where custom AI...
Azure AI Search vs SQL: Why I Ditched a Managed Search Service for a Database (and Why You Might Want To)
TL;DR: I built a Significant Terms AI system on top of Azure AI Search. It worked. It was powerful. It was also costing me a small fortune for a workload...
VS Code – Invalid Argument opening .git/config file
Launching VS Code this morning, I was unable to initialise git. Error: warning: unable to access 'C:/Users/craig.xxxxxxx/OneDrive...
No-Auth, No Problem: How To Build A Copilot Studio Agent for SharePoint KB with Azure AI Search
TL;DR: I built an Azure-powered “Next Best Action” copilot that reads service desk tickets, searches a SharePoint-backed KB via Azure AI Search, and posts...
Getting Started with Microsoft Copilot Studio: Build Your First Simple AI App
So you’ve heard of Microsoft Copilot Studio and you're wondering—what can I actually build with this? Maybe you’ve seen demos of AI agents handling...
