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Give AI tools, not just prompts. Kayla Cinnamon and James Montemagno build a custom tool the model can call instead of guessing. See it in action: msft.it/6012aSChC
AI found a 90% optimization. It still needed an engineer's judgment call. Mark Downie and Sireesha Pisipati get into it.
See how: msft.it/6010aSAjg
🤯 How can an undefined CPU opcode… have operands?
Welcome to x86 history. 🧠⚙️
0F FF could be decoded + parse operands before 💥 invalid opcode. Then backward compatibility helped keep PADDQ out of its natural slot.
CPU archaeology awaits. 🏺
Read 👉 msft.it/6017aSAEf
ALT A blue background features white text: "The Old New Thing" at the top. Below, there's a question about undefined opcodes ud0 and ud1, asking how they can have parameters. The bottom encourages reading Raymond Chen's Blog.
💥 Your CPU just hit code that should never execute. But was it int 3 or ud2? 👀
int 3 → “there’s no code here” ud2 → “you reached an unreachable/undefined path” 😬
Same crashy vibes. Very different debugging clues. 🧠⚙️
👉 msft.it/6012aSk1G
ALT A blue background features an image of an open book and glasses. Text reads: 'The Old New Thing'. Below, it asks why the compiler uses 'ud2' and 'int 3' for non-executing code. At the bottom is a prompt to read Raymond Chen's Blog.
Anna Hoffman argues your database belongs in source control, just like your application code: msft.it/6010aSXvO
Your browser just became a bouncer for sketchy requests. Daniel Roth shows how: msft.it/6014aSX94
That's semantic search. Yo-Lei Chen breaks down how SQL Server pulls it off: msft.it/6017aSrlL
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