Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️7h ago

The Hanselminutes Podcast - Agentic Workflows with Don Syme and host Scott Hanselman

https://www.hanselminutes.com/1039/agentic-workflows-with-don-syme

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Agentic Workflows with Don Syme

In this episode, Scott talks with Don Syme about the emerging world of agentic developer workflows and what it means when coding tools move from autocomplete helpers to collaborators. They explore how modern tools like GitHub Copilot and GitHub Agentic Workflows are evolving into systems that can plan, execute, and iterate on tasks across a codebase, and what that means for software design, type systems, and developer responsibility.

Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️8h ago

Comprehension Debt — the hidden cost of AI generated code | by Addy Osmani

https://medium.com/@addyosmani/comprehension-debt-the-hidden-cost-of-ai-generated-code-285a25dac57e

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Comprehension Debt — the hidden cost of AI generated code.

Comprehension debt is the hidden cost to human intelligence and memory resulting from excessive reliance on AI and automation. For…

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Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️1d ago

Refactoring the heart of PowerToys from C++ to C# | by Noraa Junker

https://noraajunker.ch/PowerToys-refactor/

#powertoys #dotnet #csharp #cpp #softwaredev #windowsdev #windows

Refactoring the heart of PowerToys from C++ to C#

In the last few months I have been working on refactoring the heart of PowerToys from C++ to C#. This heart is the PowerToys runner.

Robert Kingett2d ago
I’m probably just now noticing something that’s really old news to other people, but I became a little tired of having to go into the advanced Safari settings to briefly turn on JavaScript for the very brief moment I needed it on my iPhone. I generally keep it off except for those times when I absolutely need it on my mobile device. Today, I thought I could find it quicker by searching for it. If I go to the settings app and I explicitly look for JavaScript, no results show up at all. I think if you’re a developer of any operating system, and you have a search function, I think that should be able to find advance options as well as surface level options. #Apple #SoftwareDev
Jeff Bailey2d ago

You didn’t build a product. You built a haunted house that your future self has to live in.

Learn how technical debt traps teams and how to escape it.

https://jeffbailey.us/blog/2026/02/22/fundamentals-of-maintainability/

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Fundamentals of Maintainability

Why software maintainability matters: structural complexity, understandability, technical debt, coupling, and code smells. Learn the principles that keep code changeable over time.

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Brandon H  4d ago

via @dotnet : Modernize .NET Anywhere with GitHub Copilot

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#dotnet #NET #GitHubCopilot #Copilot #modernize-dotnet #modernize # modernization #VSCode #VisualStudio #GitHubCLI #CLI #codingagents #customskills #developerexperience #softwaredev…

Modernize .NET Anywhere with GitHub Copilot - .NET Blog

See how the modernize-dotnet agent helps you assess apps, create upgrade plans, and modernize .NET projects from Visual Studio, VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and GitHub.

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kiteto5d ago

"We don't have time." "No QA engineer." "Tests were too flaky." "It's on the roadmap."

We looked at why teams skip E2E test automation. The blockers are almost never technical — they're organizational.

We wrote up the 5 most common ones and what actually helps:

https://www.kiteto.ai/en/blog/e2e-test-automation-barriers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=kw11&utm_content=e2e-blockers

#TestAutomation #E2ETesting #QA #SoftwareDev

Why Most Software Projects Skip E2E Test Automation

Research reveals why 95% of companies lack full E2E test automation. Learn the key barriers and practical steps to start automating your critical paths.

Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️Mar 10

Extend your coding agent with .NET Skills | by Tim Heuer

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/extend-your-coding-agent-with-dotnet-skills/?hide_banner=true

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Extend your coding agent with .NET Skills - .NET Blog

Introducing the dotnet/skills repository and how .NET agent skills can improve coding agent workflows.

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Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️Mar 10

Air Launches as Public Preview – A New Wave of Dev Tooling Built on 26 Years of Experience

https://blog.jetbrains.com/air/2026/03/air-launches-as-public-preview-a-new-wave-of-dev-tooling-built-on-26-years-of-experience/

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Air Launches as Public Preview – A New Wave of Dev Tooling Built on 26 Years of Experience | The JetBrains Blog

Download Air – free for macOS. Windows and Linux versions coming soon. We hold a principled optimism for agentic software development – and a pragmatic one. After 26 years of building developer too

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Devlyn AIMar 9

Why AI coding tools still need senior engineers:

→ AI writes confidently — even when wrong
→ Can't own architecture or trade-off decisions
→ Junior + AI = faster mistakes in production
→ Senior judgment = AI as leverage, not liability

Speed without correctness isn't a feature.

It's a risk.

#AIEngineering #SoftwareDev #CTOLife