Back in April, when my paid Claude / ChatGPT subscription started to hit limits more often than I wanted that to happen, I somehow thought “and why don’t I try to host it all myself”. After all, how difficult could it be… just set up a server, write relatively simple software, and ditch those subscriptions.… Read More »
I am sure you’ve heard about razors, you may have even tried them (and who am I to judge you for that?) However, the reason I wanted to mention them in this post is that there is a very specific pricing strategy that was adopted by King C. Gillette: The strategy is still valid today,… Read More »
You have probably heard that story about a software developer buidling a replacement for Adobe’s software over a weekend by now. My personal reaction to seeing those announcments was somewhere in between “Holy crap what a feat!” and “Wait a second, has it been exaggerated, perhaps, even if a little?” Don’t get me wrong, coding… Read More »
First of all, this is an image of me. OK, not quite an image of me, it’s a drawing of me. Yeah, not quite either… it’s a drawing of me when I finally hit the button to publish this post and left the room. And there is supposed to be a chair somewhere, and some… Read More »
In the previous post, I showed off what can be done with the help of AI coding assistants quickly. And then I thought “well, it’s great I can see files and execute power shell remotely through my agent, but can I actually come up with some sort of CUA? And what would it take?”. It… Read More »
For better or worse, I’m pretty sure AI coding agents are not only capable of replacing developers in some distant future, they can do it now. Below is a project that cost me about 10 USD in Deepseek API usage, about 10 days of sleep-deprived nights since I had to tell the agent what to… Read More »
It seems that junior developers hiring is way down from where it used to be based on articles like this one, for example: https://byteiota.com/developer-hiring-crisis-2026-40-worse-junior-drops-73/ That’s attributed to the rise of AI-assisted development, and I guess that makes sense. Of course the problem that is often mentioned in the context of these stats is that, without… Read More »
Anthropic published a research paper back in March, and it has a nice diagram of the theoretical vs observed AI exposure by occupational category. For example, Computer & Math category is highly exposed in theory (AI can do a lot there), but, in practice, AI is underused there still. I am not going to tell… Read More »
To be honest, I don’t really know how and what to write about Power Platform anymore. I mean, of course, Power Platform is still there, I still do work in that space, I see a lot of benefits to having the ability to call all those connectors, I still think Power Apps make it easier… Read More »
When setting up an agent in the Copilot Studio, one of the things we could and should be doing is providing instructions. Sometimes, we’d be using those instructions to define constraints. Well, at least that’s part of what instructions are supposed to be used for. You can find some example here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/guidance/generative-mode-guidance And to some… Read More »