Category Archives: AI
BlogWriter Goes Open-Source
Today I formally opened up my demo program BlogWriter as an open-source program. To do so, I added an MIT license and began taking contributions. Really that was about all there was to it, but it felt momentous.
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Spec Kit Phases
I’ve been writing quite a bit about Spec Kit. Mostly because I can’t get over how effective it is when combined with Copilot. Spec Kit essentially “forces” you into Spec Driven Development best practices. Spec‑Driven Development (SDD) flips the usual … Continue reading
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Writing A Front End
For the past six weeks I’ve been developing my demonstration program as a console application. Today I decided to give it a nice front end using Blazor (I don’t know Blazor). In the time it took to listen to Tommy … Continue reading
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Adding Cosmos with Spec Kit & Copilot
Yesterday I set out to add Cosmos to my demonstration project. The goal was to keep track of all queries, even after the browser is closed. My plan was to work with Spec Kit and Copilot, as described in my … Continue reading
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Spec Driven Development (SDD)
I am totally blown away by the combination of Spec Kit and Copilot. It is one thing to read about SDD and quite another to build with it. [For more on the steps in SDD, please see what I wrote … Continue reading
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Microsoft Agent Framework: Human In The Loop
tl;dr If you’re building automated workflows that sometimes must pause for human judgment (approvals, moderation, triage), Microsoft Agent Framework provides first‑class HITL primitives: typed RequestPorts, durable suspended execution, emitted RequestInfoEvents, and automatic routing of responses back to the correct workflow … Continue reading
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Using Session State
My demo program is a multi-agent application that accepts a topic BlogAgent, researches that topic (ResearcherAgent) and then drafts a blog post (AuthorAgent). The post is then reviewed by another agent (ReviewerAgent) who either accepts the draft or sends it … Continue reading
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Copilot Review To The Rescue
For those who are following along with the evolution of my Blog Writing application: after the last revision (allowing follow-up questions to a query) Copilot evaluated my Pull Request and sent me an email that the follow-up was not, in … Continue reading
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Podcast: MAF Deep Dive
Happy to post to my podcast a deep dive into Microsoft Agent Framework with Daniel Costea. Available here or wherever you get your podcasts.
Microsoft Tenants
What is an Azure tenant (Microsoft Entra ID tenant) — and what is it used for? tl;drAn Azure tenant — now called a Microsoft Entra ID tenant — is a dedicated, isolated instance of Microsoft’s identity service that represents an … Continue reading
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Agent Skills 101
tl;drImagine an AI assistant in your company that can write emails, check expense reports, and run CI pipeline steps — but it has every capability baked into one giant prompt. It’s slow, expensive, brittle, and dangerously able to access systems … Continue reading
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