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DOP 369: Vibe Coding Without the Slop
Show Notes #369: Vibe coding is great until it isn’t, and the until part usually shows up fast. Ten different ways to calculate sales tax. An agent that switches programming languages in the middle of a request. One team on NodeJS, another on Python, and nobody with a rule about either. So who’s supposed to stop that? Turns out that’s a job now. Somebody has to tell the agents what they can and can’t do, encode it, and then prove it held.
Best of 2025: How AI Agents are Reshaping the Developer Experience
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The Developer’s Guide to Agentic AI: The Five Stages of Agent Lifecycle Management
As companies transform into agentic enterprises where humans and AI agents work side-by-side, these agents are rapidly evolving beyond simple task execution. We’re on the cusp of a significant shift where these agents won’t just follow predefined instructions but will learn to adapt, self-correct and even improve themselves. This leap in capability means AI agents can empower businesses to be more agile, delivering relevant products and innovations faster than ever before.
Unleash Your Innovation with Agentforce Vibes: Vibe Coding for the Enterprise
Vibe coding is a new approach to software development that opens up exciting possibilities for developers, turning ideas into working applications faster than ever. This unlocks new opportunities to build with creativity, speed, and scale. That’s why we’re excited to announce Agentforce Vibes, Salesforce’s new vibe coding offering for the enterprise.
Unleash Your Innovation with Agentforce Vibes: Vibe Coding for the Enterprise
Vibe coding is a new approach to software development that opens up exciting possibilities for developers, turning ideas into working applications faster than ever. This unlocks new opportunities to build with creativity, speed, and scale. That’s why we’re excited to announce Agentforce Vibes, Salesforce’s new vibe coding offering for the enterprise.
Unleash Your Innovation with Agentforce Vibes: Vibe Coding for the Enterprise
Vibe coding is a new approach to software development that opens up exciting possibilities for developers, turning ideas into working applications faster than ever. This unlocks new opportunities to build with creativity, speed, and scale. That’s why we’re excited to announce Agentforce Vibes, Salesforce’s new vibe coding offering for the enterprise.
AI Clouds Are Flying Blind: The Illusion of Runtime Protection
Widespread generative AI (GenAI) adoption, powered by billion-dollar investments in GPU-based infrastructure, is forging a new and invisible attack surface. As enterprises migrate their most valuable intellectual property to cloud-based AI workloads, they are placing their trust in an advanced generation of cloud native application protection platforms (CNAPPs).
MCP Vulnerability Exposes the AI Untrusted Code Crisis
A critical vulnerability in Anthropic’s widely used MCP Inspector tool allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on developer machines simply by tricking them into visiting a malicious website. With over 5,000 forked repositories affected and a CVSS score of 9.4, this represents one of the first major security crises in the AI development ecosystem.
How AI Agents are Reshaping the Developer Experience
The role of the developer is undergoing a huge shift due to the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) and the emergence of low-code and no-code platforms. AI agents are helping to shift developers’ focus from long hours of manual coding to high-value problem-solving, architecture and decision-making processes. We are seeing developers embrace this change: Salesforce’s recent State of IT survey reveals that a staggering 96% of developers are excited about AI’s impact on their careers.
Trading Psychology
Dan Fernandez · Follow 2 min read · -- Trading Psychology Trading psychology is essential to understanding how emotions, decisions, and mental strategies impact trading performance. In the fast-paced environment of financial markets, a trader’s mindset can make or break their success. According to Mark Douglas (2000), successful traders must develop mental discipline and emotional control, learning how to manage fear and greed.
Securing the foundations of AI applications with Chainguard Images
Putting modern AI frameworks into production in 2024 means dealing with unremediated Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), bloated runtime environments, slow release cycles, and the dreaded version agony.
Alumna Shauna Quill Part of Historic Grammy Win
Though the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of the New York Youth Symphony's scheduled Carnegie Hall performance in 2020, the NYYS kept making music. Shauna Quill, the executive director of the NYYS and a 1997 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, remembers the start of a recording project back in 2020.
Zero-day Vulnerability Affecting the MSDT
This blog was originally published by CrowdStrike here. Written by Dan Fernandez - Liviu Arsene, Endpoint & Cloud Security.
Twenty Carnegie Mellon Faculty, Three Alumni Nominated for GRAMMY Awards
November 20, 2019 From classical to country, Carnegie Mellon University was well represented as nearly two dozen faculty members and alumni received nominations for the 2020 GRAMMY Awards.
Learning Azure: Part 2—Architecture and interactive APIs for .NET and REST APIs
Whether you're trying to wrap your head around architectural concepts, or you need to get down into the nitty gritty of understanding a particular API, Dan Fernandez joins Donovan Brown to show how Azure Docs has you covered.
Learning Azure: Part 1-Azure Docs tips and tricks
Did you know that the Azure docs are not only open source, but it's currently the fastest growing project on GitHub? Dan Fernandez joins Donovan Brown to show off some cool features, a few tips & tricks, how you can contribute, and a few buried treasures.
Introducing Visual Studio Live Share
In this introduction to Visual Studio Live Share, you learn how this new feature enables developers to share their full development context with teammates, to co-debug and co-edit code—even on different operating systems and using different tools. Come see it in action! For more information, check out this course on Microsoft Virtual Academy: Code: T254
Community - Hotel Speak
The Hotel Speak community The Hotel Speak community is made up from a wide range of talented hospitality professionals. Find out more about them (and read their posts) by clicking on their profiles. Join the community Are you a hospitality or travel industry professional who’d like to contribute to Hotel Speak? Share your knowledge and expertise with our readers and help drive industry forward.
TWC9: How TWC9 Should REALLY be Hosted...
This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Vlad get kicked out of the studio by some special guests who then discuss the week's top developer news, including; [01:20] Follow @danielfe[02:10] Follow @briankel[
Visual Studio Debugging & Cloud Diagnostics Team - Connect(“Live”); // Q&A
Debugging and diagnostics are fundamental skillsets for any Visual Studio developer, so we hope you join us for a live Q&A session with members of both the Visual Studio debugging and Azure cloud diagnostic team, hosted by Dan Fernandez. This will be your chance to meet members of the product team working on the tools you love, to ask your questions and enjoy an hour full of discussion and demos.
CoreCLR is now open source on GitHub
The .NET Core Team talks about the release of the CoreCLR codebase to GitHub. CoreCLR is the second open source repo that the team has shared on GitHub, the first one being CoreFX. CoreCLR is an execution engine for .NET apps, performing functions such as IL byte code loading, compilation to machine code and garbage collection. The team talks about the codebase, the process of making it open source and about the overall move to open source.
Immo Landwerth and David Kean - Open sourcing the .NET Framework
With the recent announcement that the .NET Core is open source, Dan sits down with Immo Landwerth and David Kean to discuss what open sourcing means, how .NET Core will support both Windows and Linux, how Mono fits into the open source efforts, and how community members can contribute to this effort.
Channel 9 turns 9!
From our humble beginnings as a website built with alpha quality forum technologies that we stitched together with creative code and a lot of love, and our videos were made by a few dudes roaming the halls of Microsoft with a cheap camcorder – look at us now. Channel 9 streams live events to 100,000s of people around the world, we have a state of the art recording studio, we do C9 Live at events around the world bringing you directly into the conversation with Microsoft folks in real time.
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