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Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
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Working hard to automate myself out of a job.

A man is as big as what'll make him mad.
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A good starter pack: go.bsky.app/MGaH9TV
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Love seeing these facilities!
if you like cable porn, the network cabling in the Azure Fairwater data centres is *chef's kiss*

the things that look like hoses at a gas station bring the closed loop direct water cooling to the GPUs. some of the chips have these *etched channels* for cooling hotspots with microfluidics
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
My session on responsible Copilot Agents gets going at 3:30 in Moscone West - room 2016. Come join us: www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...
Cognizant at Microsoft Ignite 2025 | Christine Price
AI is reshaping every industry– and together with #Microsoft, Cognizant is defining what’s next 👉 Join us November 18–21 at Moscone Center, San Francisco (and online!) to explore how we’re helping or...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Very very true especially with Copilot Agents:
TDD is more important than ever
TDD is more important than ever
Lately, I've been reminded of the heady days of my agile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development) youth by how often I've found myself asking, "how will we test this?" As I've mentioned frequently on podcasts and recent Q&As about AI, an odd paradox has emerged in the software industry: 1. Developers experienced in agile engineering practices like test-driven development tend to be among the most skeptical of AI code generation, often citing fears that software quality is being thrown out the window 2. Developers experienced in agile engineering practices like test-driven development tend to be among the most successful at building great software with coding agents, often citing creative techniques enabling agents to verify the correctness of their work In the late 2000s, I always knew I was talking to a solid programmer if their first question upon being handed a complex task was to ask, "how will we test this?" Agile developers learned back then that literally everything hinged on establishing a fast, reliable, automated way to verify your code fulfilled its intended purpose. Without tests, you can't refactor aggressively, deploy frequently, or delete safely. Over the 2010s, many of us learned patterns and heuristics that allowed us to take shortcuts and tone down our testing zeal in the name of pragmatism and efficiency, but the underlying skill of concocting ways to verify our code never stopped being valuable. Well, here we are again. In 2025, the only thing that matters when it comes to coding agents like Claude Code and Codex CLI is to ensure they are equipped with the tools they need to independently verify the correctness of their work.
justin.searls.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The interesting perspective for me was that the initial water required to enable an Azure datacenter is the equivalent of 20 houses. And that water, once the initial fill is completed, will be used and reused for six years with no loss.
#MSIgnite
zero water waste in new data centers. impressive #msignite
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I know this is repetitive but I cannot say it enough: to learn about *all* the announcements from Microsoft Ignite you need to read the book of news: news.microsoft.com/ignite-2025-... #MSIgnite
Microsoft Ignite 2025 Book of News
news.microsoft.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I tell everyone the most useful thing about Ignite is the book of news! Go read it now before the keynote kicks off:

news.microsoft.com/ignite-2025-...
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Very eager to see the cavalcade of news hitting while I am sitting in the Chase Arena. Some of these are going to sound more like a starting gun at a race...
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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BREAKING: Microsoft has just announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic. It brings Claude AI models to Azure, and also sees Anthropic commit to purchase $30 billion of Azure compute capacity. Nvidia + Microsoft also investing in Anthropic. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/822988/...
Microsoft’s new Anthropic partnership brings Claude models to Azure
Microsoft and Nvidia are also investing into Anthropic as part of new strategic partnerships.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Okay it is #MSIgnite time.
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
LLMs are super useful for a variety of scenarios. AGI is a myth. Those two statements can both be true!
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
You shouldn't underestimate the challenge in getting staff to use new tools, even if the benefits are "obvious" to some. Meeting them in the tools they use is key to how Cognizant drove up Copilot behavior: www.linkedin.com/pulse/changi...
Changing Staff AI Behavior Positively
It has now been over two years since the AI explosion - and we've seen a huge amount of energy expended to harness large language models to solve business challenges. What we haven't seen, in that tim...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Only 49 miles on it. Very low mileage for a nearly ten year old car.
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Microsoft has a new small language model, dubbed Mu. It powers the new Settings AI agent inside Windows 11, and is offloaded fully onto NPUs on Copilot+ devices blogs.windows.com/windowsexper...
Introducing Mu language model and how it enabled the agent in Windows Settings
We are excited to introduce our newest on-device small language model, Mu. This model addresses scenarios that require inferring complex input-output relationships and has been designed to operate eff...
blogs.windows.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I will admit - hearing this sound when it starts up - I smiled involuntarily.
Microsoft has accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Windows Vista's 😲 The boot sound switch is in the latest preview build of Windows 11, and Microsoft says it's a bug it will fix. Full details: www.theverge.com/news/687417/...
June 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The WorkLab cofounder, Collete Stallbaumer, goes into further details of the Copilot Agents and the Copilot Wave 2 spring release here - well worth reading in full: www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Your window into the world of agents | Microsoft 365 Blog
Check out the Copilot Wave 2 spring release, including AI-powered Search, Create, Notebooks, and a new Agent Store.
www.microsoft.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
WorkLab from Microsoft just released their 2025 Work Trends Index and it introduces a new concept of "Frontier Firms" when it comes to Copilot.

Worth reading in full - these changes are coming right now!

www.microsoft.com/en-us/workla...
April 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Copilot Agents have hit a true inflection point. The next few months could help many organizations transform the way they approach tasks like backfilling: www.linkedin.com/pulse/copilo...
Copilot Inflection Point
"I have some news to share..
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April 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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It's official!

Microsoft is launching new Intel Lunar Lake versions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 with anti-reflective screens — but only for business customers.

DETAILS: https://buff.ly/4glMEsf 💻
Microsoft launches its first Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs with new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, and they're shockingly expensive
Intel is finally available in the latest Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7, but only for businesses, and for an eyewatering $1,499.
buff.ly
January 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
An interesting thread about DeepSeek - although I still feel strongly that the current control plane of control for AI (e.g. Microsoft Business Chat) is a more important battle than whether GenAI needs X amount of chips to run properly.
Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…
January 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The ability to quickly flip through accounts is great.
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Jan 17
📢 Bluesky 1.96.5 rolling out now

A couple of quick updates for everybody! Have a great weekend!

• On desktop web, clicking your profile pic now opens a quick account switcher
• You can now report a DM conversation without opening it
• Improvements to gestures on Android
January 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
That is a large crystal!
Oh yeah, forgot to post these yesterday..

Microsoft 40th Anniversary crystal.
January 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Enough with Walled Gardens I say!
We want Bluesky to be a great home for journalists, publishers, and creators. Unlike other platforms, we don't de-promote your links. Post all the links you want — Bluesky is a lobby to the open web.
Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads

In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
November 27, 2024 at 4:20 PM