Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 50, 2025

Week 50, 2025: AI agents transform software development with Hugging Face Skills, Agent Lightning, Compound Engineering, and MCP standardization. Plus Data & AI Durban finale.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 14, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 49, 2025

Week 49 tech roundup: Control-plane AI architectures, Claude Opus 4.5's aggressive coding style, Claude Code Desktop hands-on, Go vs Rust vs Zig philosophy, and beginner barriers to AI-assisted development.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 7, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 48, 2025

Week 48 AI roundup: Open-source pg-aiguide teaches LLMs production PostgreSQL, Claude Opus 4.5 drops to $5/25 per million tokens, deep agent architectures explained.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 30, 2025

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

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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.