Blogs summary – Saturday 14 February 2026
Weekly roundup of updates from .NET, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Visual Studio blogs, covering new releases, features, and AI tools.
Weekly roundup of updates from .NET, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Visual Studio blogs, covering new releases, features, and AI tools.
A technical overview of Microsoft's new Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance (AVNRA), exploring its purpose, capabilities, and use cases for high-throughput network routing.
A developer shares his experience using Claude AI to accelerate coding tasks, including database support and performance optimizations.
A developer shares a real conversation with Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, to fix bugs in a Delphi IDE expert plugin.
Using Claude Code AI to fix complex bugs in the GExperts Delphi code formatter, including indentation issues in anonymous functions and repeat-until loops.
GExperts Reverse Statement expert upgraded with customizable regex rules for transforming Delphi code, including loops, function pairs, and assignments.
Thoughtworks retreat findings challenge the idea that AI replaces junior devs, highlighting their value and the challenges facing mid-level engineers.
Thoughtworks retreat findings challenge AI's threat to junior devs, highlighting their value and the real challenge of retraining mid-level engineers.
Explains how token limits and context windows cause AI coding agents to fail, and offers techniques to keep them stable during long tasks.
Managing multiple AI coding agents in Xcode by isolating their DerivedData folders to prevent build conflicts and maintain a clean workspace.
Introducing mcp-wire, a CLI tool that simplifies configuring MCP servers across multiple AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenCode.
Introducing the Ideation skill for Claude Code, a structured pipeline for turning vague ideas into actionable, high-confidence technical plans.
Anthropic's public benefit mission as a corporation, detailing its stated purpose to develop AI for humanity's long-term benefit.
Anthropic's public benefit mission as a corporation, detailing its commitment to responsible AI development for humanity's long-term benefit.
Analyzes changes in OpenAI's official mission statement from 2016 to 2024, based on IRS tax filings, showing a shift in focus and wording.
Analyzes changes in OpenAI's official mission statement from 2016 to 2024, based on public tax filings, showing a shift in focus and wording.
A daily tech reading list covering AI advancements, API latency fixes, cloud scaling, and the importance of fundamentals over frameworks.
Microsoft Entra Private Access now supports BYOD, allowing registered devices to securely access internal resources without requiring full device management.
A cloud-native security practitioner shares insights from reviewing conference proposals for Open Source SecurityCon at KubeCon Europe 2026.
Martin Fowler shares insights from a software retreat on how LLMs impact senior, mid-level, and junior developers, and discusses cognitive debt.