Announcements
- Microsoft reportedly develops LLM series that can rival OpenAI, Anthropic models - SiliconANGLE - Rumours have begun that MS looks to drop ChatGPT for Copilot and are instead testing other low cost models such as deepseek
- Apple Delays Siri Upgrade Indefinitely as AI Concerns Escalate - Bloomberg
- Manus, a New AI Agent From China is Going Viral—And Raising Big Questions - this AI is doing some next level development, even the preview video shows it connecting to financial stock information, doing analysis, creating dashboards and even hosting it
DevOps
- Optimizing incident management with AIOps using the Triangle System | Microsoft Azure Blog - Another MS research article around reducing Time to Mitigate (TTM) for growing portfolios by utilising AI agents for triaging and expanding it to run common issue’s runbooks. I see MS offering this as a platform in the future and other observability platforms offering a similar product
Architecture
- Thinking Like an Architect - Gregor Hohpe - NDC London 2025 - this ted like talk had some beautiful thoughts and ideas around modelling and abstractions
Technical Articles
- https://blog.oedemis.io/understanding-llms-a-simple-guide-to-large-language-models - Step by step, the introduction of how LLMs evolved and work
- High-Performance Logging in .NET 9 - performance of using templated string vs interpolation
- Building an Agentic System - Building an Agentic System - Building an AI agent is typescript
- Source Multiplayer Networking - Valve Developer Community - Valve explain how they do multiplayer networking in their client-server model and tackle lag, limits and ahead of time predictions
Resourceful
- How to capture network activities of a pop up #DevToolsTips - auto open dev tools, for pop ups, so you can capture network tab. Where has this setting been all my life
- 5 Learning techniques you should know | MSicc’s Blog - productivity techniques for developers
- Wokwi - World’s most advanced ESP32 Simulator - Super cool online emulator for Arduino, Pi and other boards, run and test your code without having to physically setup your wiring & circuit
- Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT - a masterclass into how ChatGPT works in a 3 1/2 hr deep dive 👏
- Becoming a good engineer | Madmeg’s Blog