Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI Without the hiring of early-in-career developers, the profession’s talent pipeline will collapse...

Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI | by Mark Russinovich & Scott Hanselman

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Having laid out my arguments, and thought about them carefully, I end this essay in a cautiously opti- mistic frame of mind. All things considered, my remaining anxiety about LLMs seems to boil down to verification. Can we trust ourselves to thoroughly vet every single output of the LLMs we use? In the- ory, we must commit to this, if we are to avoid contaminating the literature with not only things that are wrong, but things that are right yet unsourced. In practice, however, that Rubicon of trust was already crossed in cosmology long ago. When was the last time you repeated an N-body simulation just to see if the original authors did it right? What LLM use must really force us to do is consider whether we are happy and satisfied with this status quo.

I like this approach from Natalie Hogg — many of the allegedly unprecedented problems of working LLMs are things that are already true of working with other people and other people’s code and we live with them just fine
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was reading an older post by @thurrott.bsky.social about his frustrations with USB cables - and I have to say - I just acquired a caberqu.com USB cable tester and it is perfect for finally going through and trashing bad USB C/C or USB A/C cables. It easily tells me the data and power in seconds!

Most well made USB-C cables now say the data/power at each end for easy visibility. Older ones often have it printed on the cable itself in tough-to-read fonts...

caberqu.com is the site where they now sell them directly!

Crawl, Walk, Run with Copilot + Agents | Reed Wiedower Crawl, walk, then run. It sounds simple - but with the allure of Copilot Agents many organizations find themselves throwing information workers into the deep end before they are ready to construct Age...

Microsoft's announcements on Monday around Copilot Wave 3 were quite compelling. Yet most organizations still don't understand that to get *value* from Copilot - you need to start simple. I explain why here: www.linkedin.com/posts/rwiedo...

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

Love seeing these facilities!

Cognizant at Microsoft Ignite 2025 | Christine Price AI is reshaping every industry– and together with #Microsoft, Cognizant is defining what’s next 👉 Join us November 18–21 at Moscone Center, San Francisco (and online!) to explore how we’re helping or...

My session on responsible Copilot Agents gets going at 3:30 in Moscone West - room 2016. Come join us: www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

Which regular tools are you referring to? Like IT Pro ones or Office apps or something else?

Very very true especially with Copilot Agents:

Native Sysmon functionality coming to Windows | Microsoft Community Hub Learn how to eliminate manual deployment and reduce operational risk with Sysmon functionality in Windows.     

🚀#Sysmon will become #native to #Windows
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And Microsoft is running these data centers on 100% renewable energy (by the end of the year) which helps push back the ill informed narrative that datacenters are using water and burning carbon. #MSIgnite

The interesting perspective for me was that the initial water required to enable an Azure datacenter is the equivalent of 20 houses. And that water, once the initial fill is completed, will be used and reused for six years with no loss.
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Microsoft Ignite 2025 Book of News

I know this is repetitive but I cannot say it enough: to learn about *all* the announcements from Microsoft Ignite you need to read the book of news: news.microsoft.com/ignite-2025-... #MSIgnite

I tell everyone the most useful thing about Ignite is the book of news! Go read it now before the keynote kicks off:

news.microsoft.com/ignite-2025-...

Very eager to see the cavalcade of news hitting while I am sitting in the Chase Arena. Some of these are going to sound more like a starting gun at a race...

Microsoft’s new Anthropic partnership brings Claude models to Azure Microsoft and Nvidia are also investing into Anthropic as part of new strategic partnerships.

BREAKING: Microsoft has just announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic. It brings Claude AI models to Azure, and also sees Anthropic commit to purchase $30 billion of Azure compute capacity. Nvidia + Microsoft also investing in Anthropic. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/822988/...

A stage with many TV screens above it

A series of colorful screens saying Microsoft Ignite above a large auditorium

Okay it is #MSIgnite time.

LLMs are super useful for a variety of scenarios. AGI is a myth. Those two statements can both be true!

Changing Staff AI Behavior Positively It has now been over two years since the AI explosion - and we've seen a huge amount of energy expended to harness large language models to solve business challenges. What we haven't seen, in that tim...

You shouldn't underestimate the challenge in getting staff to use new tools, even if the benefits are "obvious" to some. Meeting them in the tools they use is key to how Cognizant drove up Copilot behavior: www.linkedin.com/pulse/changi...

Only 49 miles on it. Very low mileage for a nearly ten year old car.

well look I'm sure the blue angels yesterday also caused some disruption...

Introducing Mu language model and how it enabled the agent in Windows Settings We are excited to introduce our newest on-device small language model, Mu. This model addresses scenarios that require inferring complex input-output relationships and has been designed to operate eff...

Microsoft has a new small language model, dubbed Mu. It powers the new Settings AI agent inside Windows 11, and is offloaded fully onto NPUs on Copilot+ devices blogs.windows.com/windowsexper...

I will admit - hearing this sound when it starts up - I smiled involuntarily.

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Your window into the world of agents | Microsoft 365 Blog Check out the Copilot Wave 2 spring release, including AI-powered Search, Create, Notebooks, and a new Agent Store.

The WorkLab cofounder, Collete Stallbaumer, goes into further details of the Copilot Agents and the Copilot Wave 2 spring release here - well worth reading in full: www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

a three phase graphic; phase 1 is a human with an assistant; phase two is human agent teams; phase 3 is human-led but agent operated

WorkLab from Microsoft just released their 2025 Work Trends Index and it introduces a new concept of "Frontier Firms" when it comes to Copilot.

Worth reading in full - these changes are coming right now!

www.microsoft.com/en-us/workla...

Copilot Inflection Point "I have some news to share..

Copilot Agents have hit a true inflection point. The next few months could help many organizations transform the way they approach tasks like backfilling: www.linkedin.com/pulse/copilo...

It is so much easier to tweak once the format is locked - having to go back and check the format after the fact is...tedious.