For the longest time, I thought AI would never apply to me as a developer. I don't excel at math, and AI is pretty much all math. But then I realized that I don't need to understand the math to use AI effectively - there's plenty of applied intelligence that's directly relevant to what I do every day with PowerShell. …

This is the first installment in a series of posts that show actually useful use-cases for AI in automation. Most of the content will revolve around "structured output," which is basically JSON-formatted AI output. You'll learn more about structured output in-depth later on, but in this post, I wanted to give …

Recently, I was trying to figure out if the content of two headlines overlapped. I needed a script that would answer if Pacific Palisades is part of Los Angeles, but I couldn't use regex because there's no pattern that matches "Pacific Palisades is part of Los Angeles." There's also no simple string …

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 …

I don't know if you can tell but I'm having a ton of fun lately with AI. I prefer AI coding over manual coding because I can skip all the tedium and just communicate in my first language. Advanced things too, in languages I don't know well like TypeScript. I remember seeing a YouTube headline about a guy who built a …

Since I can't find it anywhere else on the web, here's how you detect ARM64 xplat. 1# Determine OS and Architecture 2$osPlatform = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation]::OSDescription 3$architecture = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation]::OSArchitecture 4 5# Adjust the platform and …

Last week, I had such a blast at PSConf.eu in gorgeous Antwerp, Belgium. It was my first in-person conference in FIVE YEARS! Literally, the last time I was at a conference was at Data Grillen in June 2019. There, I professed that I'd be taking a break from speaking. Little did I know :grimace: Fast-forward five very …