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Here we go! The book "Learn C# Programming" that I co-authored with @mariusbancila and @ankitsharma_007 with @PacktPub has been finally published amazon.it/Learn-beginner…

@headinthebox While I understand his discomfort, any software engineer who has seriously used GitHub Copilot or similar tools in the past three months would agree that these technologies have radically transformed software engineering.

Grady is profoundly wrong, in every dimension of the word wrong.

Tell me that software won't be disposable...

@burkeholland Burke, MCP were built for that reason, so I don't get why (you previously wrote) you don't love them. While skills fit in a very wide range of use-cases, there are still deterministic goals where tools are great at

Markdown is not the answer to your AI problems. It just can't be. We need to force AI through deterministic gates.

Software engineering as we knew it is dead. On one hand, this is sad because I love coding. On the other hand, I strongly believe we can build better systems, far beyond our (current) imagination. I started embracing this in Jan '26 and it still feels weird. No room for skeptics.

Developers, developers, developers! Three new models from @MicrosoftAI now in Foundry: speech→text, text→speech, and text→image. Less integration tax. Build agents with voice, captions, call analytics and automate support and creative workflows! @AIFoundryDevs @MSAzureDev @msdev

🚨 UNITED PASSENGER CATCHES INSANE NASA ROCKET LAUNCH FROM PLANE WINDOW — FLIGHT ATTENDANT LOSES IT MID-AIR A United flight just turned into a front-row seat to history. A woman captures the exact moment NASA’s Artemis II rocket launches… straight from her window at 30,000 feet. And then you hear the flight attendant: “15 years of flying… I’ve been praying to see something like this.” • Rocket blasting through the clouds • Crew calling it a “once in a lifetime” moment He said he flew to Florida multiple times just to see a launch… Canceled. Every time. And then this happens midair. What are the chances you randomly look out your window… and see history taking off?

llama.cpp at 100k stars now that 90% of the code worldwide is being written by AI agents, I predict that within 3-6 months, 90% of all AI agents will be running locally with llama.cpp 😄 Jokes aside, I am going to use this small milestone as an opportunity to reflect a bit on the project and the state of AI from the perspective of local applications. There is a lot to say and discuss and yet it feels less and less important to try to make a point. Opinions about viability of local LLMs are strongly polarized, details are overlooked, the scientific approach is lacking. Arguments are predominantly based on vibes and hype waves. One thing is clear though - local LLMs are used more and more. I expect this trend to continue and likely 2026 will end up being one of the most important years for the local AI movement. I admit that I didn't expect the agentic era to come so quickly to the local LLM space. One year ago, the available models were too computationally expensive for doing long-context tasks. There wasn't an obvious path towards meaningful agentic applications. The memory and compute requirements were huge. Last summer, with the release of gpt-oss, things started to change. It was the first time we saw a glimpse of tool calling that actually works well within the resource constraints of our daily devices. Later in the year, even better models were released and by now, useful local agentic workflows are a reality. Comparing local vs hosted capabilities at a given moment of time is pointless. To try put things into perspective: - We don't need frontier intelligence to automate searches and sending emails - We don't need trillion parameter models to be able to summarize articles or technical documents - We don't need massive GPU data centers to control our home appliances or turn the lights off in the garage I believe that there is a certain level of intelligence we as humans can comprehend and meaningfully utilize to improve our working process. Beyond that level, access to more intelligence becomes unnecessary at best and counterproductive at worst. I also believe that that level of useful artificial intelligence is completely within reach locally and it has always been just a matter of implementing the right software stack to bring it to the end user. With llama.cpp, I am confident that we continue to be on the right track of building that software stack! The llama.cpp project is going stronger than ever. With more than 1500 contributors, the project keeps growing steadily. From technical point of view, I think that llama.cpp + ggml is the only solution that actually makes sense. That is, the software stack must run efficiently on every possible device, hardware and operating system. The technology is too important to be vendor-locked. It has to be developed in the open, by the community, together with the independent hardware vendors. This is the only right way to build something that will truly make a difference in the long run. I won't try to convince you about what is currently and will be possible with local AI. We will just continue to build as usual. I am confident that after the smoke clears and we look objectively at what we have built together, the benefits will be obvious to everyone. Big shoutout to all llama.cpp maintainers. I feel extremely lucky to be able to work together with so many talented contributors. Every day I learn something new and I feel there is so much more cool stuff that we are going to build. Also, I am really thankful that the project continues to have reliable partners to support it! Cheers!

Here we are. I continue repeating this since the very beginning of GenAI. They will probably be broadly available for '27 (my guess)

@SipeedIO Hey @SipeedIO the form does not work. Please fix it

High performance #RISCV (RVA23) K3 SBC coming soon! Up to 32GB DDR5, 60T int4 NPU, able to run Qwen3.5 35B-A3B @ 15tps~ Support Ubuntu2604 ! Vote for your preferred config and get early access when it launches next month! sipeed.com/k3/vote

Franco: "The big issue is the closing speeds, they're so different. He was probably like 50kph quicker than me. When I saw him, he was already on the grass. The issue is that it literally looks like outlaps vs pushlaps. It's very tricky to race like that, it makes it very dangerous." "I'm glad he's okay, I saw him walking, i'm glad he's fine."

These #F1 cars look like the Polistil italian toys. Even worse the speed difference makes them the most dangerous cars of the last decade.

#Formula1 has become a joke with these ridiculous cars. It’s a real shame for #F1’s history. This doesn’t even feel like competition anymore, just a big, embarrassing mess.

Someone built a Chromium browser that runs entirely in your terminal. It's called Carbonyl, and it renders actual web pages in your command line. The best part is it runs with 0% CPU usage when idle. - Full Chromium engine in the terminal. - dles at exactly 0% CPU. - Fast, lightweight, and completely terminal-native. 100% Open Source.

Yesterday was the first AspireConf where we introduced 13.2 and the new fully capable CLI first experience for aspire. If you don’t know what aspire is, watch the keynote! It was a blast to have so many awesome speakers join us. youtube.com/live/6j61K9Sna… #aspiredev @aspiredotdev

Considering the market share of the OS, it doesn't even make sense to write a native app. Performance wise, the Webview/react is far more powerful compared to WPF and also easier for AI driven development.

@awakecoding We should definitely meet tomorrow! Send a dm when you are at bld 33 :)

I just arrived at the Sonesta hotel where I'll be staying all week for the MVP summit. It's not too late for a swim! I'm looking forward to meeting everyone

We're going to be live in 3 mins! Welcome to the first aspire conference. @aspiredotdev #aspire

Announcing Aspire 13.2! Overhauled to be agent friendly, CLI first, revamped VS code extension and more! devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspire-… #aspiredev @aspiredotdev

Join @JoshuaKGoldberg to learn about typescript and aspire! @aspiredotdev #aspiredev #aspireconf

This is the proper way to start a full MVP experience in the Seattle area. #mvpbuzz