Microsoft's Maia 200 Brings AI Inference Economics into Reach for .NET Builders
Microsoft’s Maia 200 Brings AI Inference Economics into Reach for .NET Builders TL;DR Microsoft introduced Maia 200, a breakthrough inference accelerator engineered to dramatically improve the economics of AI token generation. Maia 200 is the most efficient inference system Microsoft...
AI Toolkit for VS Code 0.30.0: Agents Are Now First-Class Citizens in .NET Development
AI Toolkit for VS Code 0.30.0: Agents Are Now First-Class Citizens in .NET Development TL;DR: Microsoft’s AI Toolkit v0.30.0 adds a Tool Catalog, Agent Inspector, and first-class evaluation testing , making agentic AI development feel less like experimental plumbing and...
Context Bloat Is Killing Your AI Agents—Here's How Anthropic Just Fixed It
Context Bloat Is Killing Your AI Agents—Here’s How Anthropic Just Fixed It TL;DR Anthropic released MCP Tool Search, a feature that introduces “lazy loading” for AI tools, allowing agents to dynamically fetch tool definitions only when necessary. Instead of loading...
GPT-5.3-Codex vs. Claude Opus 4.6: What .NET Developers Need to Know About the Coding Wars
GPT-5.3-Codex vs. Claude Opus 4.6: What .NET Developers Need to Know About the Coding Wars TL;DR OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, its most capable coding agent to date, in a synchronized launch with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 . GPT-5.3 Codex is 25%...
GPT-5.3 Codex: The Agentic Coding Model That Changes How .NET Developers Ship
GPT-5.3 Codex: The Agentic Coding Model That Changes How .NET Developers Ship TL;DR OpenAI launched GPT-5.3 Codex on February 5, 2026—an agentic coding model that transforms code generation from “write and review” to autonomous multi-day project completion, delivering 25% faster...
AI Weekly Roundup: February 15, 2026 — Agents Go Mainstream, Costs Plummet, and .NET Gets Serious
AI Weekly Roundup: February 15, 2026 — Agents Go Mainstream, Costs Plummet, and .NET Gets Serious TL;DR 2026 is shifting from hype to pragmatism, moving away from building ever-larger language models toward making AI usable . Microsoft’s Maia 200 inference...
Claude Opus 4.6 Lands in Azure: What .NET Developers Need to Know About the New Agentic Coding Wars
Claude Opus 4.6 Lands in Azure: What .NET Developers Need to Know About the New Agentic Coding Wars TL;DR Claude Opus 4.6 is now available in Microsoft Foundry , bringing Anthropic’s latest reasoning engine to Azure. For .NET teams, this...
GitHub Copilot SDK Brings Agentic Workflows to Your .NET Apps
GitHub Copilot SDK Brings Agentic Workflows to Your .NET Apps TL;DR: The GitHub Copilot SDK, now in technical preview, lets developers embed the same engine that powers GitHub Copilot CLI into their own apps . For .NET engineers on Azure,...
Azure Functions Model Context Protocol Support Goes GA: A Win for Secure Agentic Workflows
Azure Functions Model Context Protocol Support Goes GA: A Win for Secure Agentic Workflows TL;DR Microsoft has moved its Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Azure Functions to General Availability, signaling a shift toward standardized, identity-secure agentic workflows. With built-in...
Azure Functions Model Context Protocol Hits General Availability: Secure AI Agents Just Got Easier
Azure Functions Model Context Protocol Hits General Availability: Secure AI Agents Just Got Easier TL;DR Microsoft has moved its Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Azure Functions to General Availability, signaling a shift toward standardized, identity-secure agentic workflows. The MCP...