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.
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).
17 January 2026
The full write-up (and code) for the Semantic Kernel multi-agent Hangman game, promised as a follow-up to the earlier 'finally got it working' milestone post.
15 January 2026
The first real working milestone for the Semantic Kernel Hangman game: switching to a bigger qwen2.5:32b-instruct model via IPEX-LLM Ollama and simplifying down to 2 agents (no host agent) finally got a full game to completion.
9 January 2026
Three small local models (llama3.2:3b, phi4-mini, qwen2.5:7b) and a host agent structure for the Hangman game — writing the game logic was easy, getting agents to reliably call functions and use tool output instead of hallucinating turned out to be the real challenge.
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.