29 April 2026
Foundry Local reaching GA raised hopes for a real Ollama replacement on Intel GPU — but both tested OpenVINO models hard-capped responses at 199 tokens regardless of the configured max_tokens, a blocker for agentic coding workflows like Aider.
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.
25 January 2026
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.
25 January 2026
A year of noticing the same LLM quirk across ChatGPT, Copilot, Grok, and Gemini: multiple-choice answers skew hard toward B, with C and D almost never chosen, no matter how explicitly you ask for an even A/B/C/D distribution.
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.
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.