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This week: Explore durable AI agents with Vercel Eve, practical AI development workflows, and the risks of relying on free LLM providers. Dig into C# pipeline parallelism, TPL Dataflow, EF Core specification performance, and secure RAG retrieval. The videos also cover startup tradeoffs, junior developer soft skills, engineering leadership, and code review pressure.
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Weekly Recap
Should You Leave A Stable Job For An AI Startup? - Principal Engineering Manager AMA
Startups can be an exciting opportunity, but what does that look like compared to something more stable? And does stable REALLY exist anymore? Did it ever?
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I Used Free LLM Providers To Code And It All Fell Apart
In this video, I talk about how I tried using some free LLM providers instead of frontier models. Buckle up.
I'm A Junior Developer - How Do I Improve My Soft Skills?
From the ExperiencedDevs subreddit, this developer wanted perspectives on improving soft skills as a junior software engineer.
Some Of The Stuff I'm Building With AI
In this video, I catch up on some of the side projects I am building with support from AI.
My Agents Are Their Own Worst Enemies.
In this video, I talk about how my AI agents, if left to their own, continue to build too much CI/CD bloat.
I'm Building An AI-Powered SQL Workbench With Copilot
In this video, I talk about a product I am building with AI for working with SQL databases.
The Engineers Are TOO Productive! What Do We Do?!
From the ExperiencedDevs subreddit, this engineering manager wanted perspectives on what to do when the developers are... TOO productive.
Side Projects And Building Games With AI Development Flows
In this video, I talk more about building side projects and diving into a bit of game development using AI.
We're Pushing Code To Production Without Reviewing It
From the ExperiencedDevs subreddit, this developer wanted perspectives on dealing with pressure to deliver software and the side effects of rushing that code.
Vercel Eve Explained: Durable AI Agents and C# Integration
Understand Vercel Eve's durable agent runtime, filesystem-first design, replay boundaries, and how C# applications connect through a version-pinned HTTP client.
Are C# Pipeline Stages Parallel? Throughput, Ordering, and Benchmarks
Measure C# pipeline parallelism and throughput across sequential, async, item, stage, and data-parallel models without inventing performance claims or results.
Specification Pattern Performance and EF Core Translation Traps
Diagnose Specification Pattern performance in EF Core through translation boundaries, SQL inspection, query shape, command counts, plans, and measured evidence.
RAG Retrieval Authorization and Data Lifecycle: Tenant Filters, Provenance, and Deletion
Learn RAG access control and data lifecycle patterns for .NET: server-derived scopes, tenant filters, provenance, revisions, deletion, caches, and audit trails.
Build a TPL Dataflow Pipeline in Modern .NET
Build a bounded TPL Dataflow pipeline in .NET 10 with explicit capacity, concurrency, ordering, cancellation, coordinated faults, and terminal completion.
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