MCP.NETAIArchitectureAgent Framework
MCP Is Everywhere — But Where Are the .NET Examples?
The biggest first-mover opportunity in the .NET AI ecosystem, and almost nobody's taking it.
·16 min read
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14 posts on .NET, SQL, architecture, and the craft of building software.
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Claude CodeAgentic DevelopmenttmuxTailscaleDevOps.NETRemote Work
Claude Remote Agents: Running 10 AI Agents While You're Not at Your Desk
How a 10-agent WinForms conversion system changed the way I think about 'being at my desk' — and the SSH + Tailscale + tmux stack that makes it work.
·10 min read
AISoftware EngineeringTech Leadership.NETSenior EngineerAI-Assisted DevelopmentEngineering LeadershipSoftware ArchitectureDeveloper Productivity
Russinovich and Hanselman Just Redefined "Senior Engineer"
Their ACM paper isn't a LinkedIn take. It's a peer-reviewed argument that the definition of seniority in software engineering has been fractured by generative AI — and from WAICF 2026, the same signal: seniority is no longer years of experience. It's judgment per token.
·7 min read
AIDeveloper Productivity.NETTools
After 19 Years, I Cancelled My JetBrains Subscription
Nineteen years of ReSharper, Rider, and the full toolbox. Last month I let it lapse. Not out of frustration — because I hadn't opened Rider in six weeks, and I didn't miss it.
·4 min read
AICode QualitySoftware Architecture.NETDeveloper Productivity
Your Tech Debt Has a New Co-Author
AI doesn't introduce bad patterns into your codebase. It amplifies the ones that are already there — at machine speed.
·5 min read
AISoftware EngineeringDeveloper Productivity.NET
GPT Will Walk You to the Car Wash. Claude Will Walk You to the Tire Shop.
Why 'developers don't write code anymore' is the wrong headline — and what the car wash problem tells us about where AI actually is.
·4 min read
AIDeveloper Productivity.NETEngineering LeadershipAgentic Development
I Haven't Typed Code in Months. I've Never Shipped More.
A .NET architect's honest look at what happened when AI replaced the keyboard — and why the skills that made you senior five years ago are depreciating fast.
·5 min read
AIDeveloper ProductivityWork-Life BalanceAgentic Development
Building Software with AI Is Addictive. I Mean That Literally.
AI gave me back the part of the job I loved. It also removed the friction that forced me to stop.
·4 min read
AIAgentic DevelopmentAnthropic.NETSoftware Architecture
Stop Chatting with Your LLM. Start Compiling.
Anthropic just shipped Programmatic Tool Calling — the feature that makes traditional tool calling look like dial-up. 37% fewer tokens. 13% higher accuracy. And a fundamentally different architecture.
·4 min read
AICode Quality.NETSoftware ArchitectureDeveloper Productivity
Most of the Code AI Learned From Is Garbage
Here's the thing nobody tells you when you start using AI coding agents: they trained on the internet. And most of the code on the internet is terrible. My job is to make sure it doesn't write like that for me.
·4 min read
AIProduct ManagementAgileEngineering LeadershipAI Strategy
Your Two-Week Sprints Are Killing Your AI Strategy
78% of companies adopted AI. 80% saw no business impact. The generative AI paradox is real — and the Agile framework is the problem.
·4 min read
AIAgentic Development.NETDeveloper ProductivitySoftware Architecture
Nine Months in the Trenches of Agentic Development. Three Things I Know for Sure.
After 20 years of traditional software engineering, I went all in on agentic development. Not to dabble — to build a complex new platform entirely from scratch this way. Here's what's real.
·4 min read
SQLPerformanceSQL Server
SQL Index Tuning: The Fundamentals I Keep Coming Back To
After years of chasing slow queries, most of the wins come down to a handful of indexing patterns. Here's the mental model I use every time.
·5 min read
.NETC#ArchitecturePatterns
Ditching Exceptions for the Result Pattern in .NET
Exceptions are the wrong tool for expected failures. The Result pattern makes error paths explicit, composable, and testable — here's how I use it in C#.
·5 min read