30 January 2026
Earning the Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102), with a shoutout to Whizlabs' updated agentic/multi-agent practice exams and Tutorials Dojo's Azure AI scenario drills.
Tagged “ai-102”
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Fighting two broken Semantic Kernel 1.70.0-preview vector-store connectors (InMemoryVectorStore, SqliteVectorStore) while building a RAG-based word selector for Hangman — the fix was a manual raw-SQL upsert plus code-level category filtering, not the built-in abstractions.
18 January 2026
Migrating the Hangman game from classic Semantic Kernel to Microsoft's new Agent Framework in ~3 hours: why AutoGen is being phased out, and the honest recommendation for where to invest depending on where you're starting from (AutoGen, older SK, or fresh).
6 January 2026
A study day untangling Semantic Kernel, Azure AI Foundry orchestration, and AutoGen for AI-102: SK for prototyping and simple setups, Azure AI Foundry for enterprise-scale governed multi-agent systems — and the bot-vs-agent distinction that ties it together.
21 December 2025
Realizing that everyday exam-prep habits already were prompt engineering: a four-step Azure exam strategy built around priming, format/quantity constraints, and length limits to get sharper, more useful answers out of AI chat tools.
16 December 2025
A quick AI-102 hands-on lab moment: running Azure AI Language's sentiment analysis on a 'Happy birthday!!' message and getting exactly the positive score you'd hope for.