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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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New path for quantum computing


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Microsoft unveiled Majorana 1 today, marking a breakthrough as the first quantum chip in the world driven by a ...

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What about Jevons paradox?


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Cade Metz on NVIDIA's Challenging Day: When DeepSeek introduced its DeepSeek-V3 model the day after Christmas, it ...

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AI mistakes are very different from human mistakes


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Some great commentary from Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on the mistakes made by AI: Over the millennia, we have ...

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