The Complexity We Choose
AI can help us write more software, but our real opportunity is to make software simpler to understand, verify, and own.
Content Knitting & Lead Alchemy
“Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling — the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.”— Niklaus Wirth

Writing
AI can help us write more software, but our real opportunity is to make software simpler to understand, verify, and own.
A concise comparison of Microsoft Amplifier and Anthropic's Claude Code, and how Microsoft's new Agent Framework complements both for production agent development.
An introduction to key techniques for optimizing Large Language Models (LLMs), including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Chaining Transformers, Prompt Engineering, and Transfer Learning and Fine-tuning.