Klaus Loeffelmann

I wrote a blog post recently about the #WinForms Expert Agent, which enables the design of UIs to be prompted. But it's a field story, about #Copilot and my 82-year-old Mom, who got sort of "stranded" at a customer. I got quite some reactions, many... devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-don…

@dev_maims Visual Basic.

Guess the programming language

@usamaijaz1020 @JamesMontemagno Value is, when customers like using it. So... I'd say empathy and creativity is key. The rest is redundant.

@JamesMontemagno The apps that are built with Agents have very little value, value is when the functionality is difficult to achieve.

Apple App Store reviews take so long that while I am "Waiting for Review", I have already added at a minium of 10 new features to my apps.. and that is like 1 hour after I submitted it. #vscode #githubcopilot

@timheuer I just read, "call me Ai" . And I too, should know the song by heart... 🤷

I cannot remember what I was supposed to get at the grocery but I can recite every lyric to ‘You Can Call Me Al’ no problem. Brains are weird.

We talked more, and we're still talking. I am contemplating writing about that, too. But it's nothing which is as straight forward as that blog post was for me. And that last one was one of the most difficult to put together, ever.

... many as personal messages. One, however - let's put it that way - moved me, and made me contemplate a lot. It was a real conversation. "Did you read it?" - "Tried 3 times." - "Tried? Too long, too boring?" - "No, I stopped 3x when it started to scare me too much".

I wrote a blog post recently about the #WinForms Expert Agent, which enables the design of UIs to be prompted. But it's a field story, about #Copilot and my 82-year-old Mom, who got sort of "stranded" at a customer. I got quite some reactions, many... devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-don…

@zakitworld @DevLeaderCa Except, in Scrum terms, that was the Product owners job. So, if you, as a developer, had the double role of a PM and a Dev or a PO and a Dev, and could do it well, you're good. If not, it's gonne be tough.

Replace No but rather transform us. AI will handle the implementation the syntax, the boilerplate, the write this function tasks. But software development isn't just writing code. It's understanding people, navigating ambiguity, making trade-offs, and deciding what to build. That's still a human thing

Do you think AI will ever replace human software developers, or will there always be a need for us?

@DevLeaderCa I think AI will replace the necessity to formulate intent via code. No, let me rephrase this. AI has done that already, mostly. Except niche cases. If you work on the GC or on the Jitter in C#, I don't know: Do you still write IL or Assembly? That's what I mean by niche.

About #AISlob... Two options, I've NEVER 😏 been affected by that. a) I am an excellent, extraordinary, perfect natural language prompter. b) My code is yet slobbier anyway, so I wouldn't notice. Q: When affected, how much was Slob mitigateable by improving your System Prompts?

Hey #WinForms Devs. Tell you something. So, my 82-year-old-Mom's Time Study software GPF'd (yes, she still does Consulting gigs occasionally) - at a customer! The plan: A new WinForms App as a quick Ersatz for the Time Recording. Could Copilot help? devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-don…

@curiosityonx Take out my phone and cancel all meetings.

What would you do in this situation?

@dotMorten @timheuer Guys, you know, there is always grandmother #WinForms right there to soothe you!

@timheuer Hah don’t even get me started on WinUI’s Window class 🤣

As someone who worked on UI frameworks for a long while, boilerplate bothers me. SwiftUI...numericPad/decimalPad don't have an auto-dismiss capability so everyone has to wire up a 'done' button. Just add it.

@timheuer @JamesMontemagno AppStore Apple or Windows? I was pretty inactive on X lately...

Was impatient and wanted a notifier for my App Store submissions...Copilot CLI did it in 10 minutes. Added confetti even when status flips to 'ready for distribution' 😂 (📺 captured from @JamesMontemagno Tiny Clips)

@csharpfritz Well, all the Scrum Product Owners go... "welcome to my world!"

The biggest things I’ve learned about coding with AI assistance is to provide plenty of context. The AI is a 7 year old who just left a candy store and is looking at your code You need to be crystal clear with instructions and context for the task you want it to complete Giving the AI context and valid scenarios to work with will prevent it from using boundary cases to inspect and validate code it writes for you

We merged a C# 15 feature into .NET 11 preview 2: collection expression arguments. Allows specifying creation arguments for a collection expression: `List<string> names = [with(capacity: 10), ... elements ...];` Spec: github.com/dotnet/csharpl…

I would like to know: The substances used back then in the L(e)m were so highly toxic and corrosive, since the requirement at the time was they would need to ignite the engines just by mixing the substances, and if I researched correctly, there weren't many other options at the time. Is this still a challenge today, or had chemistry advanced and you guys can actually test those things without saying good bye to your lungs. Also, since things were so corrosive, the engines allegedly could never reuse after a test run, which made the Grumman guys never at all comfortable, because the decent stage would actually be started for the first time in lunar orbit, and the ascent stage, we'll, on the moon. Has that changed?

Raptor V3 Ascent Run

@Wisdom_HQ "Schatz, Post! Finanzamt!"

.Net Blog: Introducing #CSharp Expert and #WinForms Expert—two experimental #CustomAgents designed to help #DotNet developers write cleaner, smarter code using #GitHubCopilot. Learn how these agents enhance productivity and expertise: is.gd/QRLYQs

Nice! Without having personally tested it - ComponentOne picking up/supporting #WinForms #DarkMode is really cool to see! Makes me happy, if we can further standardize it, because it's more than taste. It's really #A11Y!

@peymanr34 It might have been a necessary fix for accessibility reasons. But I personally was wondering on first glance, which one was supposed to be the correct one. Honestly, unless there is more to this which I'd miss, that's too low a prio to address currently. Sorry. 🤷

Maybe I've stared at it too much but DataGridView (In .NET 7.0+) has extra contrast in the border lines which I find very distracting. I haven't found a easy workaround for this yet. Please upvote if you agree with me. #dotnet #winforms github.com/dotnet/winform…