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Trick or Tokens: Five Monsters Eating Your Context Window
As Halloween gets closer, here are five monsters that eat the tokens in your AI-assisted development sessions, and the tricks that keep them out.
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Jonathan "J." Tower
.NET Foundation VP | 13x Microsoft MVP | Founder & Consultant
Jonathan Tower is Vice President of the .NET Foundation, a 13-time Microsoft MVP, and founding partner of Trailhead Technology Partners. With nearly three decades of experience, he helps organizations with .NET development, modernization and migrations, and pragmatic AI integration. He speaks at conferences worldwide, runs meetups and an annual conference, and lives in Grand Rapids, MI with his wife and children.
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Tell AI Everything Twice, Then Tell It a Second Time
You gave your AI coding assistant one critical rule, and ten endpoints later it quietly broke it. That's not a prompting problem. Here's why LLMs drift from your instructions and the check gates that catch it.
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Developing with AI Exposes Your Bottlenecks
AI makes writing code dramatically faster, but a team only moves as fast as its slowest step. Speed up coding and the constraint doesn't disappear. It just moves somewhere you can finally see it.
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Ditching SaaS Platforms With AI
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was widely misquoted as saying SaaS is dead in his BG2 Podcast interview. What he was really saying is that AI is moving the build-versus-buy line—and this year we crossed it twice.
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Backlog Zero: How AI Can Clear You Development Backlog
We've seen the same pattern at almost every client. The backlog has a top half and a bottom half, and the top half is the active list. From it features are being shipped and bugs are being fixed. The bottom half, though, just gets longer, f…
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