Niels Berglund

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!

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.

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.

Learn VS Code integration with Claude Code for AI-assisted development. Includes WSL setup, CLAUDE.md configuration, and building your first API endpoints.

Step-by-step Claude Code installation guide for Windows developers. From WSL setup to creating your first AI-assisted Node.js application in minutes.

The AI landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation this week, shifting from isolated models to autonomous, collaborative systems that promise to reshape enterprise technology. From Microsoft's NLWeb democratizing conversational AI and Claude 4's impressive yet concerning capabilities, to revolutionary coding tools and scalable multi-agent architectures, these developments signal that the future lies in intelligent ecosystems where AI agents collaborate seamlessly across entire technological infrastructures.