Stop Restarting the Chat: Continue a GitHub Copilot App Session in VS Code
Author(s): Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. The conversation, diff, and git worktree all carry over. How it works under the hood, where it can catch you out, and a seven step review flow …
Your AI Agent Is Paying Generation Prices for Yes or No Questions
Author(s): Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. How the Azure OpenAI Decisions API in Microsoft Foundry turns routing, triage, and guardrail checks into typed probabilities your code can act on If your agent asks …
Why Is Microsoft Foundry’s Content Filter Blocking Legitimate Medical Questions?
Author(s): Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. An AB-100 case study: read the guardrail annotation, find the category and severity, and relax one threshold while Self-harm stays strict. An oncologist asks a clinical notes …
Four Ways to Reach a Model in Another Azure Region From Microsoft Foundry
Author(s): Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. How each pattern handles identity, routing, and private networking, and which Foundry features stop working when a gateway sits in the path. Microsoft Foundry model availability is …
Four Ways to Reach a Model in Another Azure Region From Microsoft Foundry
Author(s): Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. How each pattern handles identity, routing, and private networking, and which Foundry features stop working when a gateway sits in the path. Microsoft Foundry model availability is …
One Function, 92% of the CPU: Profiling an Azure Cobalt Workload with Arm Performix
Author(s): Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. How targets, recipes, and an MCP server turn Arm hardware counters into a fix you can verify Here is a result worth pausing on. When Arm Performix …
How to Delegate Data Engineering to AI Agents in Microsoft Fabric
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. Two practical patterns for Fabric-aware Copilot, bounded agents, OneLake, Spark, and CI/CD, with architecture and merge decisions kept in human hands. Code generation is the easy part. The …
Why Production RAG Needs More Than Vector Search
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. How hybrid search, graph retrieval, agents, and evaluation turn a basic RAG pipeline into a production architecture. My RAG prototype looked complete: ingest documents, create embeddings, store vectors, …
From Prompt to Diagram to Pull Request: Building AI-Powered Collaboration on a Visual Canvas
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. How Lucid’s AI diagramming, AI whiteboarding, and the Lucid MCP server let AI agents create, share, and update living documents, with a map to the Microsoft AI stack. …
Rayfin: Define a Full App Backend in TypeScript and Ship It to Microsoft Fabric
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. How an open source SDK turns a set of TypeScript classes into a database, an API, authentication, and hosting, all running as governed services inside Microsoft Fabric. This …
GitHub Copilot Without the Desk: Remote Control, Cloud Sandboxes, and Chronicle
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. A technical guide to running the Copilot CLI from your phone, in an isolated cloud environment, and across a history you can query. GitHub Copilot has grown past …
The Repository That Reviews Itself
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. Triage bots, disposable test boxes, pooled API budgets, and a review loop that calls itself, reconstructed from the source. This article walks through the tooling that keeps OpenClaw, …
If AI Can Clone Your App in a Day, What Is Left to Defend?
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. Software moats, agent architectures, and the engineering that still holds value when the cost of building drops to almost zero. This article looks at software defensibility in a …