Reading Notes #696

This week's collection highlights the rapid evolution of AI agents, exploring their asynchronous capabilities, deployment journeys, and their impact on DevOps and video editing. On the programming front, we explore new Git features and API versioning with OpenAPI in .NET 10. We also dive into some fascinating podcast discussions ranging from the GUI vs. CLI debate to generational perspectives in the workplace. 

Enjoy the reading!

AI

• All your agents are going async — /dev/knill (Zak Knill) - An interesting solution is explained in this post to ease our communication with AI agents.

• AI Didn't Kill Video Editing (It Made Some Nice Motion Graphics) (Golnaz) - It's so easy and convenient to think that AI is doing the work and could replace humans if you don't know what really is the tasks.

• From Local to Production: The Complete Developer Journey for Building, Composing, and Deploying AI Agents | Microsoft Foundry Blog (Takuto , jeffhollan) - Finally reaching v1! Hurray! And a new name for a VS Code extension.

Programming

• New features in Git 2.54: easier rebasing, hooks, and statistics (Andrew Lock) - A nice post that explains how to rebase correctly with the new features included in the last release

• Combining API versioning with OpenAPI in .NET 10 applications - .NET Blog (Sander ten Brinke) - There is a lot in this post. Close to the end, she explains how to configure SwaggerUI or Scalar to visualize your API. Nice, since now API doc is generated by OpenAPI.

Podcast

• 510: AI Agents: Claws, Copilot, GUI vs CLI Debate (Merge Conflict) - In this episode, James is put in the spotlight and needs to talk about this phone situation. Honestly, interesting discussion and they finally end up talking about the AI agent, you know, CLI versus UI.

• The Real Reason Young People Don't Have 'The Hunger' for Work (And What Leaders Need to Hear) with Generations Expert Dr. Eliza Filby (A Bit of Optimism) - I'm sure, like me, you heard about "the Gen Z are doing this" or "the millennials are like that". It's interesting to go deeper than this and understand the reason why the Boomer, the Gen X, all those generation they do what they do, and also understand the phase, the years, like why all those generations seems to get closer and closer.

• Can AI Agents Safely Become DevOps Engineers? (Agentic DevOps : AI + Infra Ops) - I read and consume a lot of AI as a developer, it's interesting to see the DevOps side waking up and are building AI agents that focus on DevOps.

• Chet Husk: .NET Tooling - Episode 399 (AI DevOps Podcast) - I never thought about that competition, the human versus the machine, related to the consumption of the output of a CLI. This was a very interesting episode about the performance and the priorities.

~frank

Reading Notes #695

A mix of thoughtful perspectives and practical updates this week. From evolving AI tools and model selection guidance to changes in developer workflows and tooling, there’s plenty to reflect on. Add in insights on streaming and a strong push toward more secure environments, and you get a well-rounded set of reads worth your time.

Suggestion of the week

• Why MicroVMs: The Architecture Behind Docker Sandboxes (Srini Sekaran, Craig Gumbley) - Yes! Officially launched, so we can finally include some security in our processes!

AI

• Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs - Looking forward to try the new interface that that seams to allow a more artistic interaction.

• The importance of people who care – Rachel Andrew - Interesting post about people who care in the world, where doing a lot of stuff fast is seen as a goal

• Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans (Joe Binder) - Big changes for Copilot that will probably affect your workflow. This post shares the details and reasons of this disturbance; it's all for a good reason

• GPT-5 vs GPT-4.1 - choosing the right model for your use case - Microsoft Foundry - Yes, this post is about two specific models in Foundry, but it's still true that it can definitely help to understand when to pick one model over the other in general

Programming

• It's Time for a Visual Studio Upgrade - This post does a comparison between the old and the new versions of the Visual Studio IDE and shares details about the most impactful changes.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Livestreaming Before It Was Cool (Golnaz) - Curious to learn more about the streaming options from the different platforms to the tools, and the pro and cons of each? This post is for you, and on top of that, you get the Microsoft story.

~frank

Reading Notes #694

A fast-moving mix this week: AI tooling, ARM readiness, Docker sandboxes, and real-world lessons from agents. Practical insights across .NET, DevOps, and local-first workflows.

Suggestion of the week

• Token Exhaustion: What Three AI Coding Agents Taught Me in a Single Week (Alexandre Brisebois) - Great post! Everyone needs to learn this lesson. Now you have an alternative instead of the hard way.

AI

• How Intelligent is AI? (Shawn Wildermuth) - Interesting thoughts about the current situation between code, developers, and AI

• How to Analyze Hugging Face for Arm64 Readiness (Ajeet Singh Raina) - This is a great tutorial that explains in detail how, in 7 steps, you can produce a stable arm container image.

• Foundry Local is now Generally Available (sam kemp) - Interesting solution when you need to stay local.

• Copilot CLI vs VS Code - When I Use Each (Golnaz) - Learn when some prefer using a CLI or an editor. There are so many different angles and things to do.

Programming

• Running AI agents with customized templates using docker sandbox (Andrew Lock) - The post have been waiting for! This post goes further than the happy path. Shows how to add the tools you want or the os you need.

• Why .NET MAUI Popups Lag and How to Fix Performance Issues (Kompelli Sravan Kumar) - Good to know performance as such a huge impact[on the user experience.

DevOps

• Reclaim Developer Hours through Smarter Vulnerability Prioritization with Docker and Mend.io (Adam Dawson, Dor Hayun) - Understand better the vulnerabilities with the new integration of mend.io to Docker

Podcasts

• Our Favorite Agent Setups (Agentic DevOps) - Nice discussion that goes through many AI harnesses, agents, models, and what they are playing with right now. OpenClaw, OpenCode, Claude Code, Copilot, and all of it.

• Michael Perry: AI-assisted Development - Episode 397 (AI DevOps Podcast) - Interesting discussion about AI-assisted Development (or can we say programming?) with a focus on skills and how they could be defined.