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AI Engineering

How to Move from Logic Apps to Autonomous AI Agents on Azure, Safely

Craig ChiffersOctober 19, 20260
TL;DR: Most teams want to move from workflows that call an agent to agents that run the work, but they still need to audit and check every outcome. The way...
AI Engineering

Copilot Studio Harnesses Explained: The Runtime Choice That Decides What Your Agent Can Actually Do

Craig ChiffersAugust 6, 20260
Azure AI  ·  Copilot Studio  ·  LLMs TL;DR - Microsoft has taken the GitHub Copilot harness in Copilot Studio to general...
AI Engineering

Building AI Pipelines on Azure Logic Apps: Lessons from the Consumption Plan

Craig ChiffersAugust 4, 20260
TL;DR – Azure Logic Apps Consumption is not the same as Logic Apps Standard, and the documentation will not always tell you that until you have already...
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...
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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...
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I’ve spent 4 years building production AI. Here’s what the LinkedIn posts don’t tell you

Craig ChiffersJune 22, 20261
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,...
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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...
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...
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...
AI Engineering

The LLM Arms Race Has a Scoreboard. Here’s What It’s Telling You.

Craig ChiffersMay 8, 20260
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,...

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19 Oct

This is pretty cool! Definitely worth looking at if you aren’t already using different models for planning vs implementing

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THIS IS A ACTUAL F*CKING GOLDMINE

Anthropic just shared one of the best tricks for Claude Code

The idea: run Sonnet, Haiku 5.5 and Opus 5.5 at once, each doing only what it's best at

Better results and way fewer tokens: every task lands on the right model

You just start

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18 Oct

THIS IS A ACTUAL F*CKING GOLDMINE

Anthropic just shared one of the best tricks for Claude Code

The idea: run Sonnet, Haiku 5.5 and Opus 5.5 at once, each doing only what it's best at

Better results and way fewer tokens: every task lands on the right model

You just start

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19 Oct

WiFi at 33,000ft is pretty freaking cool #Starlink

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19 Oct

Heading to Microsoft Sweden to talk all things Agents and Copilot Studio πŸ›«πŸŒ

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