Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 08, 2026

Week 08 tech roundup: Anthropic's 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report predicts orchestrators over coders, Calvin French-Owen compares Claude Code vs Codex workflows, Sonnet 4.6 outperforms Opus at 80% less cost, compound engineering ships as a plugin, and Karpathy declares Claws the next AI layer.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, February 22, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 07, 2026

Week 07 tech roundup: GPT-5.3-Codex vs Claude Opus 4.6 showdown, Agent Teams multi-agent orchestration in practice, PostgreSQL scaling to 800M ChatGPT users, and why taste beats code in Software 2.0.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, February 15, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 51, 2025

Week 51, 2025 tech roundup: SQL Server log shipping scripts, router-based AI agent architectures, vector DB myths debunked, Claude Code's plan mode revealed, and Karpathy's LLM year-in-review. Final post of 2025!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 21, 2025

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

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