You thought building your product would be mostly about writing code. Spin up your favorite coding agent and that’s it, right? But then reality shows up. Integrations that should work don’t. APIs behave inconsistently. One service times out, another silently fails, and suddenly you’re debugging something you didn’t even build. […]
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After 7 years at Microsoft, here’s what I learned!
Today I’m celebrating 7 years of working at Microsoft, what a journey it has been! 🥂 🎊 My journey with computers started as a kid, helping my dad to screw in hard drives and motherboards into desktop computers he was assembling for sale in our community in Barbados I never […]
Building a Pizza-Ordering Agent using Azure AI Foundry (and Getting the Mental Model Right)
Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft at the time of writing this, but the perspectives and experiences shared here are my own. I’ve been spending time with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, and one thing became clear very quickly: if you don’t get the mental model right, everything feels confusing. I built […]
The Importance Of Questions
A good question can do wonders. It can clear ambiguity, spark curiosity, provoke introspection, invoke empathy, reveal intentions and even foster connections to name a few. Many great leaders in history and today are known not for always having the right answers but largely in part because they always asked […]
Text-to-Text Generative AI as a Flashlight
A flashlight has many use cases but it can be simplified to a single purpose of illumination. Illumination is the act of bringing light to a space of darkness and in my opinion, this is a great analogy for one way to use text-to-text Generative AI which is going unnoticed. […]
Principles of Building AI Agents By Sam Bhagwat – Book Review
When I was contacted by Sam Bhagwat’s team with them wanting to send me a few copies of his recent book Principles of Building AI Agents, I was excited to dig through what Sam was putting forth as principles of building AI agents as well as to share the […]
Why AI, Why Now? – A Journey Through Innovation
To understand why the current boom in the field of AI is happening, we must first understand how we got here. This quest we are on all began with Alan Turing and his bold claim that there is a test that we can do to determine if a machine is […]
GPT-5 Is Here – Why I’m Excited, and Still Watching Closely
On August 7th 2025 I sat through OpenAI full GPT-5 launch. I still have some concerns but this is a step in the right direction. I remain optimistic on Generative AI as a technology with OpenAI as a major player in the market. What I’m most excited about: ✅ The […]