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When LLMs Remember Instead of Reason

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

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Solving for the last mile

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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

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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

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I mostly run the 17.x preview version of Visual Studio which means I have also being using the earliest release of ...

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

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

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Happy Birthday

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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

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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

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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

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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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