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The Taplio invoice landed in my inbox, and I did what I do with any recurring cost I haven't thought about in a while: I actually looked at it. €50 per month. €600 a year. For a tool I was using to...
The best thing about AI as a pair programmer is that it never gets tired of me. A real pair programmer gets frustrated when you push back on the same decision for the fifth time. They sigh.They...
I never approve implementation until the plan that AI made survives interrogation. The pattern: 1️⃣ Build the implementation plan by AI in detail.2️⃣ Review it. Ask hard questions. What happens when...
Everyone is debating whether AI replaces developers.Nobody is asking if AI is the best pair programmer you have ever had. Pair programming has always produced better software. The evidence on that...
The dominant story in software development right now: AI writes the code, developers review the output, everyone learns to write better prompts. The developer becomes a prompt engineer, or optional,...
AI does not need MCP to call an API. It can make HTTP requests directly. Read the documentation. Handle authentication. Parse the response. No connector. No MCP server. Just the API and the model....
The skill that gets automated first is the one that looks most like translation work. Building flows in Power Automate is translation work: take a business requirement, find the right connectors,...
Connectors were always training wheels. They solved one specific problem: non-developers could not write API calls. So Microsoft built 400+ wrappers. Dropdowns instead of code. Useful. Genuinely...
Power Automate connectors were training wheels. That is not an insult. Training wheels are useful. They let you go somewhere you could not go without them. The question is whether you still need...
Before you write a try…catch, answer three questions: 1 Do you know exactly which exception will be thrown?Not something might go wrong. A specific type. A specific failure mode. If you are...
A conversation I have had dozens of times in code reviews: Me: Why are you catching this exception here? Developer: Otherwise the app would crash. Me: That is what we want. The reaction is always...
Your app should crash more often. Not because crashing is good. But because crashing is honest. When your app hits an unexpected state and crashes, you know exactly what happened. Stack trace....
Power Platform Architect
I help Dynamics 365 teams remove friction. Architecture, automation, and integrations that hold up.