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One idea to create jobs
Here's a good idea I'd like to kick around:We're all sick of talking to tech support on the otherside of the earth. I think Americans can do these jobs just as well as anybody else, but we've priced…Continue
Started by Kevin Neelands Jan 8, 2010.
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(photo from The Commitments)Have a great idea? Better keep it to yourself. Someone else will snatch it up and do it if you tell! On…Continue
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Started by Michael Levin Jan 5, 2010.
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Presentation: Choosing Your AI Copilot: Maximizing Developer Productivity
Sepehr Khosravi discusses the current state of AI-assisted coding, moving beyond basic autocompletion to sophisticated agentic workflows. He explains the technical nuances of Cursor’s "Composer" and Claude Code’s research capabilities, providing tips for managing context windows and MCP integrations. He shares lessons from industry leaders on shrinking process time beyond just writing code.
By Sepehr KhosraviDeveloping Your Leadership Skills toward Principal Engineering
Work isn’t the only place where you can develop valuable leadership skills, Sophie Weston mentioned in the video The Principal Engineer’s Path from her QCon London talk. She suggested thinking about the things you do outside of your job where you can learn and practice useful leadership skills, and bringing your full skill set - your whole self - to work.
By Ben LindersArticle: Building Hierarchical Agentic RAG Systems: Multi-Modal Reasoning with Autonomous Error Recovery
In this article, the author explores how hierarchical agentic RAG systems coordinate specialized workers through structured orchestration to improve accuracy, reliability, and explainability in complex enterprise analytics workflows. The article uses Protocol-H as a to show how deterministic routing, reflective retry, and modality-aware reasoning support safer multi-source query execution.
By Abhijit UbaleGoogle Brings MCP Support to Colab, Enabling Cloud Execution for AI Agents
Google has released the open-source Colab MCP Server, enabling AI agents to directly interact with Google Colab through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The project is designed to bridge local agent workflows with cloud-based execution, allowing developers to offload compute-intensive or potentially unsafe tasks from their own machines.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiAspire 13.2 Released with Expanded CLI, TypeScript AppHost Preview, and Dashboard Improvements
Aspire 13.2 brings expanded CLI with detached mode and process management, TypeScript AppHost support in preview, dashboard telemetry export and import, stable Docker Compose publishing, Microsoft Foundry integration, Azure Virtual Network support, and a major VS Code extension update. The release also includes several breaking changes to configuration files and resource commands.
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