Niels Berglund

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

Interesting Stuff - Week 37, 2025

Discover Week 37's top AI developments: 3-day technology mastery with AI tools, transformer architecture deep-dive, MCP servers enabling AI-assisted coding, Claude's new code interpreter, and Data & AI Community Day Durban registration opens October 11.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 14, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 36, 2025

Discover how TimescaleDB delivers 979x faster performance than PostgreSQL, Claude Code transforms from autocomplete to autonomous engineering teams, and agentic AI revolutionizes customer experience beyond chatbots. Week 36 tech insights on database optimization, AI-assisted coding workflows, and enterprise automation strategies that are reshaping software development at scale.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 7, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 35, 2025

Week 35 tech roundup: Discover why the cheapest AI model beats expensive ones at human behavior, Anthropic's Claude for Chrome security challenges, and Claude Code's developer revolution. Plus: .NET Conf SA returns to Durban after years.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 31, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 34, 2025

Discover this week's AI breakthroughs: Why MCP needs code over tools, how context engineering is replacing RAG, Monte Carlo methods for RL, and self-describing databases for LLMs. Plus: Data & AI Community Day Durban CfS now open!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 24, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 33, 2025

Week 33 2025 Tech Roundup: AI agents evolve with 9 agentic workflow patterns, GPT-5 transforms GitHub Copilot development, R-Zero enables self-teaching AI systems, and hybrid search beats vector-only approaches. Essential reading for developers navigating the shift from AI-assisted to conversational development workflows.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 17, 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.