Recently, I wrote about a system I created that automatically classifies SharePoint documents, but only briefly touched on the most important part—the Azure Function that does all the heavy lifting.

This post walks through the technical part of this document processing engine and demos how to build an Azure Function …

If you read my post on asking tiny questions, you're already familiar with how structured output turns LLMs into pretty reliable data processors. We saw how requesting boolean responses or specific JSON formats made local LLMs actually useful for automation tasks.

In this article, we're taking that same structured …

If you're like me and have a hard time wrapping your mind around how AI works, Microsoft's AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code makes it unusually approachable. Recent versions work on Windows, Linux AND macOS too!

I didn't expect LLM engines to be "just" binary files, but the VS Code extension helped me better …

People talk a lot about AI slop but what about anti-AI slop? My friend's kid at uni is going to school for AI, yet is required to score nearly 0% on those fraudulent AI-detection services. To pass, he had to rewrite an authentic, well-written paper to say:

"We get good help, more happy people, and less money …

I'm currently working on the final chapter of our book! It's the DevOps chapter, which for a while, I thought would probably be about LLMOps or GenAIOps. But I haven't found a way to apply those to me as a DevOps person.

After reading Chapter 2 which covers Code Assistants, my coauthor and BFF Brandon suggested we show …

Incredible! I just used PowerShell and OpenAI to import text from a PDF right into SQL Server 🚀 AI's usefulness is often debated but this is such a great use-case. I also see it being useful for automatically adding SharePoint document metadata and cleaning dirty data.

Using a new feature from OpenAI called …