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When LLMs Remember Instead of Reason

July 17, 2025
3 min read

SWE-Bench Verification asserts to be ahigh-quality, human-validated subset of the SWE-Bench benchmark designed to ...

Solving for the last mile

June 05, 2025
3 min read

Paul Ford on the The Extremely Human Last Mile: I think the answer is actually really simple, and it’s something I keep ...

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Updates from BUILD 2025

May 24, 2025
3 min read

For me, this year's BUILD was all about sharing a vision for how the end-to-end developer experience will evolve in the ...

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A Kind of Blue

May 17, 2025
2 min read

I mostly run the Preview version of Visual Studio which means I have also being using the earliest release of Fluent UI ...

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If LLMs Can Code, Why Are We Building More IDEs?

April 18, 2025
4 min read

One of the biggest debates in software development today is whether large language models (LLMs) will eventually make ...

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Happy Birthday

April 05, 2025
3 min read

This year, Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary, a milestone that feels personal to me. It’s not just a ...

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Selecting the right model for coding

March 25, 2025
5 min read

My developer life cycle includes a ton of different tasks, especially for my dasBlog open source project. I might be ...

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A simpler solution file format

March 16, 2025
3 min read

Solution files (.sln) have been integral to the .NET ecosystem for as long as I can remember, they serve to define a ...

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Claude 3.7 Available for Visual Studio

February 25, 2025
4 min read

Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the first hybrid reasoning model on the market, this excerpt is from their team: We’ve developed ...

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When LLMs Remember Instead of Reason

Solving for the last mile

Updates from BUILD 2025

A Kind of Blue

If LLMs Can Code, Why Are We Building More IDEs?

Happy Birthday

Selecting the right model for coding

A simpler solution file format

Claude 3.7 Available for Visual Studio

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