Principal AI Advocate at @Microsoft. AI Show and Tell Lead. Ex @argoai, AI, LLMs, Cloud, K8S, DevOps ☁️🤔🏄🚲 Ex @QuickSign_SAS CTO. Opinions are my own.

San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2008
🧠💡 Rethinking Agent Memory & Cracking Identity Join us Wednesday, Nov 12th at GitHub HQ in SF for a YC Founder heavy AI Show and Tell! 🎤 STELLAR LINEUP: • @achammah1, Founder @ @nexus_gpt (YC F25) - Revolutionizing how business teams build AI agents without code • @michaelhyunkim, CTO @ @agentmail (YC S25) - "Cracking Agent Identity: Giving AI Agents a Real Digital Presence" 🔥 What you'll discover: → How agents can break free from internal chat limitations → Real digital identity for AI agents (email, communication, interaction) → Enterprise-scale agent deployment strategies → The future of human-agent collaboration 📍 GitHub HQ, 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, SF 🕕 6:00-8:30 PM PST 🎫 FREE but space is LIMITED - first come, first served! This is part of the Global AI Community monthly series where thought leaders, founders & innovators share cutting-edge work. 🚨 Pro tip: Arrive early! No entry once we reach capacity. Register now: aka.ms/aist-reg/sf/x #AIShowAndTell #AIAgents #YCombinator #SanFrancisco #AI #TechTalks #Networking #GitHubHQ #AgentMemory #DigitalIdentity #Startup #Innovation Who's joining us next Wednesday? 👇
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I'm heading to the GitHub HQ this coming Monday night for AI Show & Tell with @isaacbmiller1 from DSpy, @satyapd from Scalekit, @MathisJoffre1 from Blaxel AI, plus my colleague @cedricvidal. RSVP: luma.com/wx7493ut
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Opus 5.5's motion design skills are next level. I pointed it at the Luma page for Monday's event. Here's what it cooked. 🎬🔥 (Every frame is code. So is the music.)
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At the @terminalbench meetup in SF luma.com/tbench the room is packed. Evaluation benchmarks are hotter than ever
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In the end, all that will be left is harnesses. And a box of Twinkies, probably.
You're not behind. There's no secret everyone else has. There's just the harness, and it's mostly all you need. @burkeholland gives you a simple, repeatable workflow for GitHub Copilot.
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Quite a packed week in the desktop agentic work environment space. @GitHub just released the latest GitHub Copilot App and oh my goodness, it's what I've been wanting for months. I've only been able to use it for 24 hours and I'm in love. A focused, GitHub PRs and issues centric experience with native worktree, browser integration, auto worktree port management and custom tools integration (think pnpm dev to start your server). And the list goes on and on and it's only the first release! The flow to go from idea → issue → session → edit → previewing in browser → iterate → PR → merge is the best I've seen so far. It's progressive, not in your face. Beautiful and elegant. A master piece, go check it out! Even if you're a die hard Claude Code user, it's worth it.
All new...go get the GitHub Copilot App. It's a delight. github.blog/changelog/2026-0…
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A major milestone in bringing state of the art #agentic first coding to a broader developer audience. Think conversation first, #GitHub #CopilotCLI native (other agents supported too), isolated #worktrees, focused, low noise, git change focus, multi conversations UX. And you can always switch back and forth between the Agents and traditional view. Congrats to the VS Code team for the hard work and this milestone!
VS Code was already used by millions of developers for agentic coding. However, the editor layout has traditionally been optimized for single-task and single-workspace workflows. Today, we're introducing a new window to enable our users (and ourselves!) to work with multiple agents across multiple projects: Agents. Now available in VS Code stable!
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Claude Opus 4.6 is now rolling out to @code developers!
.@AnthropicAI’s Claude Opus 4.6 is now generally available and rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Early testing shows Claude Opus 4.6 👇 ➡️ Excels in agentic coding ➡️ Performs well with hard tasks requiring planning and tool calling Try it out yourself in @code. github.blog/changelog/2026-0…
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📣 Open call to agent builders: Let's read agent skills from `.agents/skills`, so people don't have to manage separate folders per agent. Today we pulled the trigger for Codex to read `.agents/skills`. Goal is to deprecate `.codex/skills`. Pls like/tag/RT for momentum.
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Tired of manually connecting your #VPN every time you start working? I made a small #Hammerspoon #automation that does it for you based on your #macOS Focus mode. 30-minute vibe-coded hack with VS Code Copilot — but I’ve been using it daily. 🔧 github.com/cedricvidal/hamme…
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This was meant to happen, question everything you see
We are cooked Nothing is real anymore
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🔮 HOT TAKE from @PeifferPol (@SierraPlatform): "In 5 years, companies will invest as much in their AI agent as they do today in their mobile app and website." Your brand's AI agent = your new digital storefront Are you ready? 🤯 Join our next AI Show and Tell on Wed 11/12 at the @github HQ for more insights: aka.ms/aist-reg/sf/x #AIAgents #FutureOfBrands #AIShowAndTell
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Just upgraded to the new #iOS 26. Not sure how I feel about all that fluid glass transparency … there are some weird artifacts when stuff overlay and it’s hard to read #failure ? #apple
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An ex-colleague of mine, a staff-level engineer with a long record of building large-scale, high-impact systems at several top Bay Area companies, is quietly exploring new opportunities. They’ve led complex projects end-to-end, mentored teams, and consistently delivered results in fast-paced and well known name public companies and large startup environments. If you’re looking for a deeply experienced engineer who can design, build, and scale systems that matter, feel free to reach out and I can connect you privately.
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🔥 It’s SF Tech Week, and while there’s no shortage of amazing events, AI Show & Tell this Wed stands out. We’re bringing together founders & engineers shipping real production AI agents, and the lineup is inspirational. 💡 Expect to be wowed by talks on: • Proactive AI, systems that anticipate your needs before you ask • Emotional AI, models that understand tone, empathy & human intent • How human–AI experiences are starting to feel truly human 🎙 Chloe Duckworth & Shannon Brownlee, Co-Founders @ @getvalenceAI → Emotion Models for Large-Scale Voice Interaction How Valence scales emotion detection models that bring empathy & nuance to AI voice systems. 🎙 @mollycantillon, Founder @ @heynox (@OpenAI-backed) → From On-Demand to On-Accept: The AI Working Ahead of You A visionary take on Proactive AI — agents that act before you even prompt them. 🎙 @PeifferPol, Head of Agent Dev @ @sierra → Insights from the frontier of conversational agents — and how to make AI experiences feel more human. 💬 Panel + Q&A — real stories from builders shipping production AI. 🍕 Networking, snacks & drinks included 📍 GitHub HQ, 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, SF 🕕 Doors 6 PM · Wed Oct 8 🔗 aka.ms/aist-reg/sf/x
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After #Chicago this week, weekend in New York before #AIShowAndTell on Monday.
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🧠 Speaker Spotlight: @jarrodbarnes – Co-Founder @ Arc Session: Real-Time Continual Learning for AI Agents Jarrod will demo Arc's continual-learning framework featuring an open-source SRE agent resolving a Kubernetes incident in real-time – showcasing online prompt optimization + reward modeling directly from production feedback. 🎯 Monday 9/29 in NYC Register: aka.ms/aist-reg/nyc/x #AIShowAndTell #AI #ContinualLearning #SRE
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🚀 AI Show and Tell Speaker Spotlight: @thatsnicer, Nimbleway AI Roee is an R&D Engineer at Nimbleway AI and will be on stage this Mon, Sept 29 at Microsoft Research Lab NYC. He’s sharing how to build industrial-scale browser agents → making AI agents reliable on the real web: 🔹 Scraping at scale 🔹 Handling auth & anti-bot 🔹 Fleet reliability in production 📍 Microsoft Research Lab NYC (300 Lafayette St) 🕕 Doors 6:00 PM · Program 6:30–9 PM 🔗 RSVP: lnkd.in/gX3aaZsC Come learn from Roee and meet other AI builders! #AIShowAndTell #AIShowAndTellNYC #AIAgents #BrowserAutomation #AICommunity #NYCTech
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