Rob Taylor • .NET Developer • Entrepreneur • AI Cloud Enthusiast
Welcome! I’m a software engineer with over 20 years of experience in the Microsoft ecosystem. This blog chronicles my journey as I navigate the shifting world of AI, diving deeper into modern cloud and AI implementations.
We all know that Visual Studio and Copilot are effective at building boilerplate solutions in C#, but how would it hold up writing utility scripts in PowerShell? Here's what I found, along with some suggestions for anyone looking to use PowerShell for large-scale data processing.
Frontier labs set AI upon us in the oddest of ways - they made it all free expecting people to pay for it later. Well, it's later! Yet are we paying the true cost for our tokens?
It's been a while, but I finally circled back to RAG development. I really shook it up this time - a new tool, a new model, and a different data source. Here's what I learned and the advice I have to give. At the end of the day, another job well done on the Azure platform!
How could something so simple - in such wide use - be so difficult? How can an LLM be unable to generate dynamic SQL statements? They write code for people, after all. The answer is at the base of everything an LLM is, and is not. Allow me to explain and hopefully save you some pain.
Deploying Microsoft's document extraction services on the Azure portal is an exceptionally straightforward process. Here are some architectural insights from my first hands-on experience with Document Intelligence.
In a surprising move, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an essay with the IT community last weekend that echoed the sentiments of previous AI leaders, such as Palantir's Alex Karp. While his essay left many on social media questioning his true motives, one thing is certain: his warnings about data risks are absolutely true.
Kicking off a new project with a new mindset: Multicloud AI. In this post, I cover step 1 (completed) to find a solid solution to database integration and interoperability with a LLM and use it as an opportunity to pivot toward the future of what AI cloud architecture may look like soon.
Probably the worst programming technology I have ever used is the SQL MCP container. I don't even know why it exists. If you think it will mimic the power of an LLM or a SQL database, it won't. I will forge on and mix things up to find a better solution, but I hope to save someone else the trouble.
Connecting the SQL Model Context Protocol (MCP) came with a few challenges, and at the end of the day, SQL MCP was not for me. However, that doesn't mean it's useless for everyone. If you are encountering errors with your container, it may be the dab-config.json file. This guide can help you fix it.
Durable Functions became a handy method for running scheduled, orchestrated, in-context RAG requests to generate content, but I was not able to use one of its most beneficial features: parallel execution. Still, I didn't walk away disappointed, and I have several optimization suggestions to share.