Niels Berglund

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 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 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

Interesting Stuff - Week 29, 2025

This week brought developments that signal we're crossing major thresholds in AI and data architecture, from MIRIX's revolutionary memory system to OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent marking the shift from conversational AI to actionable digital colleagues. The common thread is clear: we're moving from AI as a tool to AI as a collaborator, where the future belongs to those who can design intelligent systems and master orchestration over implementation.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, July 20, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 27, 2025

Week 27, 2025 discoveries: a fundamental transformation in AI systems; we're witnessing the emergence of truly autonomous agents that think, plan, and execute independently rather than simply responding to human prompts. From Claude Code's 'terminal intelligence' and SPIRAL's breakthrough in game-based reasoning development to Flink Agents' production-ready enterprise infrastructure, these developments converge on a profound insight: intelligence emerges more naturally from environmental challenges that force systematic thinking rather than sophisticated human oversight. We're moving toward AI ecosystems that continuously push their own boundaries through self-generated curricula, marking the dawn of genuinely autonomous AI systems.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, July 6, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 26, 2025

This week's tech exploration reveals a fundamental shift from simple chatbots to sophisticated AI agents that can collaborate, remember, and reason across time. We're witnessing revolutionary developments like Google's A2A protocol for agent interoperability, SQL-powered architectures, and advanced context engineering that manages AI 'working memory.' As these technologies become production-ready, success depends less on code generation speed and more on the architectural judgment we bring to building truly intelligent systems.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 29, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 25, 2025

This week explores the convergence of traditional engineering excellence and AI-native approaches: from HTAP's death and OpenAI's PostgreSQL mastery to Microsoft's autonomous debugging agents and O3's breakthrough reasoning capabilities. The developments signal the early stages of Software 3.0's transformation, where organizational dynamics continue to shape enterprise adoption despite unprecedented technical advances.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 22, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 24, 2025

This week is a pivotal moment where AI-assisted development has evolved from experimental tooling to production-ready workflows that are fundamentally reshaping how software gets built. This week's roundup reveals a fascinating convergence around enterprise-grade AI implementation, from Meta's 10.7x training speedups to revolutionary frameworks like Dean Martin's GAIA that transform 'vibe coding' into disciplined methodology.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 15, 2025

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