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I have been writing software professionally for over 20 years. I work as a software development consultant at Excella Consulting (http://www.excella.com) in the Washington, D.C. area. I am the .NET best practices steward at Excella, working with our .NET project teams to facilitate and help the team continuously improve by following new and better practices. The development work I've been doing lately is with ASP.NET MVC in C# with NHibernate, LINQ, SQL Server, and several more technologies. I'm often called upon to setup the continuous integration server, perform code analysis, and automate the testing, packaging and deployment of software. ...more

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The Oregon Trail to Agentic AI

The Oregon Trail to Agentic AI: Where Are We on the Journey?

John McBride recently wrote “Gas Town is a glimpse into the future”, and that article got me thinking about where we actually are on the road to AI-assisted software engineering. Not where enthusiasts claim we are. Not where skeptics fear we are. Where we actually are.

Gas Town is Steve Yegge’s experimental framework for agentic AI develop

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Stephen D. Ritchie wrote a new blog post The Oregon Trail to Agentic AI The Oregon Trail to Agentic AI: Where Are We on the Journey?John McBride recently wrote “Gas Town is a glimpse into the future”, and that article got Read more of this blog post »
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