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About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. Liberty is a Senior AI Engineer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and was a Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer for various corporations, a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a 21 year Microsoft MVP.

Microsoft Agent Framework – Part 0

I’ve been looking at a number of different ways to build Agents. I’ve settled on two and will be documenting what I learn as I go: The advantage of the first is that you understand the underlying mechanisms in more … Continue reading →

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AI: The Near Term

As promised, I’ll be posting slides and commentary from my recent user-group presentation on AI (Boston Code Camp). One of my first slides talked about the near-term evolution of AI, defined as either 1-2 years or 6 months, depending on … Continue reading →

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MCP In Depth

In a special videoCast, Lance McCarthy of Progress Software dives deep into MCP, not only explaining what it is for and how it works, but demonstrating, in code, how it is done. MCP (Model, Context, Protocol) is an open standard … Continue reading →

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Get on the bus, or get run over by it

On March 28 I’m presenting on Fundamentals of AI to the Boston Code Camp. While I will cover what you need to know about the various aspects of using and creating various AI components, the key message is it is … Continue reading →

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Boston Code Camp

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HyperVideo – GitHub Issues

In examining my HyperVideo project I decided that the Bunny video was a great placeholder, but what I really wanted was my own videos. What better place to start than the videos I have up on YouTube. How am I … Continue reading →

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copilot-instructions.md

When working with CoPilot in Visual Studio, the single most important thing is context. Context tells CoPilot what it is working on, what it should already know, what language conventions to use, etc., etc. CoPilot wants to help, but its … Continue reading →

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Python??

This series on AI is going to take two paths: If you are writing apps, you have a couple choices (well, more than a couple). One choice is to stay in the Azure/.NET world, in which case C# is just … Continue reading →

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HyperVideo Features

In a previous post, I laid out the basic idea of an AI demonstration project I call HyperVideo. In this short post, I’d like to review some of the features I imagine for this project. Some will be implemented in … Continue reading →

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Essential Programmer Utilities

Every two years or so I publish a list of the utilities I find indispensable. It is interesting to me which ones last year after year (e.g., Evernote) and which fall off the list—often because the functionality I want has … Continue reading →

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CoPilot Gets Us Started

In yesterday’s post I described the project I want to build: HyperVideo. This morning I created a new Blazor application and the first thing I did was to open CoPilot and give it a prompt. Specifically, I asked it to … Continue reading →

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An AI Project

As part of my work of rapidly coming up to speed with creating AI applications, I’ve decided to start an ambitious project, and to bring you with me. I call it HyperVideo.

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