Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 47, 2025

Explore GitHub Copilot agents, AI memory systems, Apache Iceberg for lakehouse analytics, Google Gemini 3.0 Pro insights, plus .NET Conf Cape Town highlights and event updates.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 23, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 46, 2025

Explore 10 game-changing AI research papers from Transformers to Model Context Protocol, discover how async programming delivers 11x Azure OpenAI performance gains, and learn why small language models are revolutionizing agentic AI with 30x cost savings. Plus: .NET Conf 2025 South Africa updates.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 16, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 45, 2025

Discover how AI agents are reshaping software development: Claude Code's advanced features, 98% token reduction with MCP, and critical vulnerabilities in agentic markets revealed by Microsoft Research. Plus: Durban's historic first .NET Conf and upcoming AI events.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 9, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 44, 2025

Week 44, 2025: Microsoft's Agent Lightning revolutionizes AI agent training with RL. GitHub launches Agent HQ. Deep dive into Claude Skills architecture.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 2, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 43, 2025

Week 43, 2025: Anthropic's Claude Code for web autonomous coding agent, GitHub MCP Registry revolutionizes AI tool discovery, Netflix's real-time recommendation engine at scale, plus .NET Conf 2025 comes to Durban for the first time. CfS still open!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 26, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 42, 2025

Week 42 tech roundup: Netflix's 5M records/sec distributed graph system, training GPT-2 models for $92, AI-powered COBOL modernization, Claude Haiku 4.5's frontier performance at 1/3 the cost, plus Agent Skills' innovative approach to AI specialization. .NET CONF South Africa Community Edition heads to Durban on Nov 15!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 19, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 41, 2025

Discover Week 41's biggest AI agent breakthroughs: OpenAI's AgentKit platform, Stanford's AgentFlow reinforcement learning, Anthropic's Claude Code plugins, and Jesse Vincent's mind-bending Superpowers system. Plus insights from Data & AI Community Day Durban.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 12, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 40, 2025

Week 40, 2025: Netflix's Write-Ahead Log ensures data reliability at scale, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 dominates coding benchmarks, Armin Ronacher ships 90% AI-generated production code, and GitHub engineers treat Markdown as source code. Explore how experienced developers are delegating implementation to AI while guarding architecture decisions, plus urgent call for lunch sponsors for Data & AI Community Day Durban Oct 11.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 5, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 39, 2025

Tech roundup, week 39, 2025 : OpenAI's $100B NVIDIA partnership, ChatGPT Pulse launch, 10 LLM myths killing projects, and why human thinking still matters in AI coding. Plus Durban AI community event updates.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 28, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 38, 2025

Week 38, 2025 tech roundup: Anthropic reveals multi-agent AI system challenges, Berkeley researchers propose agent-first database redesigns, and Durban's Data & AI Community Day sells out in 48 hours. Latest AI development insights and production engineering realities.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 21, 2025

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Technology musings about coding and data. Some topics: .NET, SQL Server, AI/ML, Big Data, Streaming, Kafka, Azure Data Explorer, and a lot more.