@adamcogan kicking off today’s Agent Camp in Brisbane. Great to see our Microsoft MVPs inspiring the next generation here are QUT!! Can’t wait to see the other talks and workshops!

We are proud to be a sponsor of #SlashNEW for 2026! 🎉 Our team had an incredible time last year, having some great AI conversations and, of course, listening to some awesome talks. Hope to see you at the SSW booth! Come and join the fun - get your tickets now! 👇 www.ssw.com.au/events/2026/...

A huge thank you to everyone who came to see Adam Cogan's talk at the Newcastle Coders Group last night. We love the Newcastle Dev community and enjoyed having everyone in the office talking about all things AI! See you next month! 👋

Still setting up cloud infrastructure by clicking around in the Azure Portal? 😬 This beginner-friendly session will show how Infrastructure as Code helps dev teams build secure, repeatable, and maintainable Azure environments, without relying on manual setup. Register now: lnkd.in/gjgk5H56

Newcastle! Is your AI journey feeling less like the Garden of Eden & more like a jungle? 🌴 Join us for 'From Copilot to the Garden of Eden' at the #NewcastleCodersGroup. There are a lot of shiny AI tools out there… but which ones actually help developers? Find out: www.meetup.com/newcastle-co...

A huge thank you to everyone who made #NDCSydney such a fun and insightful few days! Special thanks to the SSW and @NDCconferences teams, and to all the experts who generously gave their time to share their knowledge with the community. Keep an eye out for the videos coming soon!

What a fantastic 1st Day at #NDCSydney! 🎉 We've had a great time meeting everyone so far! Thanks to everyone who joined us for Adam Cogan's talk, stopped by the booth for a chat, and played some games! See you all tomorrow for more interesting talks, fun, and conversations!

Let's go #NDCSydney! We're on the ground & ready to meet everyone today at the SSW booth. If you'd like a demo of SSW's YakShaver to save your bug reporting woes, come & say hi! We have heaps of swag to win & if you attend Adam Cogan's talk, you'll get a bonus 500 points for SSW Rewards goodies!

Not long until NDC Sydney! ⏰ Get your last-minute tickets now to see some great talks, including our very own Adam Cogan, who will speak, giving you a great rundown on practice dev AI tools! Of course, there will be the usual booth fun with great swag, demos, and lots more!

🚨 Happening tomorrow at .NET User Group Sydney - if you're fed up of burning through your tokens - do not miss this talk! Eddie Kranz is talking about why it’s time to stop rationing tokens and start thinking bigger with AI. Join us www.meetup.com/sydney-net-u...

🚨 NDC Sydney is only 3 weeks away! If you work in .NET, are using AI, or are still trying to work out what AI actually means for your projects, don't miss this event! SSW is sponsoring! Come say hi at the SSW booth for some great AI chats & win some awesome swag! 🦙🐂👇 ndcsydney.com/tickets

Don't miss tonight's .NET User Group with Adam Cogan "From Copilot to the Garden of Eden," running at SSW Sydney from 6pm (AEST). Hope you can join us for 🍕, a great talk, and 🤝chats! More info www.meetup.com/sydney-net-user-group/events/313642669 Or jump on the livestream: www.ssw.com.au/live

We've had some great talks here this morning already at Data Saturdays! Excited for the afternoon talks to come, including an extra surprise session from Adam Cogan& Gert Marx! 🎉

Are you ready for Data Saturdays Brisbane this weekend?! This event is a must for any data & AI engineers! Join our very own Adam Cogan & Gordon Beeming who will be speaking at the event! datasaturdays.com/Event/202602...

We hope you can all join our very special guest at the February Full Stack User Group in Brisbane! Jack is going to give us a real look at AI-powered data analytics and open an honest discussion about its practical uses (and failures). Join us! 👇 www.linkedin.com/events/74239...

Do you ever get bored waiting around for Claude Code to finish whatever it is it is doing in the background? Claude Code has 'hooks' that fire on actions & can send messages out, which means you can plug in a live visualisation of what’s happening while it runs. 👀 www.youtube.com/shorts/N63Ur...

For many, the big question is now IDE or CLI for AI coding? ¿Por qué no los dos? The right AI tool is now context-dependent. Which do you reach for more right now? IDE-first or CLI-first, and what influences that decision? www.youtube.com/shorts/b5SdE...

If you are paying US$200 a month for AI, how do you ensure you're getting the best value for money? Calum Simpson explains that it's not about finding a better model, but a mindset shift needed to max your benefits. What’s a “non-obvious” thing you’d use it for? www.youtube.com/shorts/6puue...

If you're not paying for the product, you are the product. Strong words from Ulysses Maclaren about #ChatGPT testing ads, starting with Free + Go users (initially in the US). What do you think about this move... #dystopian or just smart marketing? youtube.com/shorts/N63UrWoab_U #AI #blackmirror

🔥 Devs, tired of fragile RAG pipelines & duct-taped vector DBs? Join Microsoft MVP Priyanka Shah at the next User Group in #Brisbane as she dives into Foundry IQ + agentic RAG on Azure AI Search See more: ssw.com.au/events

Gemini 3 just shook the leaderboard - briefly dethroning GPT‑5.1. Ulysses Maclaren unpacks the real benchmarks, OpenAI’s counter‑moves, and a first look at Google’s new Anti‑Gravity IDE + why even Sam Altman might feel the heat. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/rdnwq... #GoogleGemini #Gemini3

Is Grok 4.1 truly emotionally intelligent - or just engineered to sound that way? This fast, test-driven breakdown probes XAI’s claims: lower hallucination rates, empathy under pressure, and more human-like responses to emotional queries. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/V5LPM... #Grok41 #ElonMuskAI

GPT-5.1 + Codex 5.1 Max: Ulysses Maclaren lays out how OpenAI is answering Gemini 3 - benchmark wins in coding, MoE signals, and why unreleased ‘supermodels’ may be kept in‑house to avoid GPU burn and imitation. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/Pz5I-...

Gemini 3 briefly overtook GPT-5.1 - here’s the no-hype breakdown: where it truly wins in multimodal and tool use, the benchmarks, OpenAI’s response, and dev takeaways. Plus a first look at Google’s Anti-Gravity IDE and why even Sam Altman is watching. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/iNflZ...

Claude Opus 4.5 just leaped ahead on SWE-Bench and token efficiency, but is it worth it without free access? Ulysses Maclaren compares Opus 4.5 vs Gemini 3 vs GPT-5.1 with real benchmarks, pricing trade-offs, and where each model wins for heavy-duty coding. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/JodTI...

Major update for #AI developers: Google just turned #RAG from an infra project into a feature toggle. Gemini now hides embeddings, retrieval, and data extraction behind a simple API, turning weeks of plumbing into time spent on data quality and UX instead. www.youtube.com/shorts/Qh_pG... #Gemini

So excited to be kicking off another SSW Brainstorming day in Sydney! This time with special guest Richard Campbell. 🎉❤️ It’s the perfect way to spend a rainy day, hacking fun ways to solve real business problems! 🎉☔️

China’s Kimi K2 just outperformed OpenAI and Claude at coding and tool use, while staying fully open source. Ulyses Maclaren & Hajir Lesani unpack why K2 is a breakthrough for security-first orgs and how to put it to work behind your firewall. www.youtube.com/shorts/YAjpA... #KimiK2 #OpenSourceAi

Microsoft just stood up a Superintelligence team led by Mustafa Suleyman, outside OpenAI. Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley unpack the 1-3 year claim of AI making autonomous scientific discoveries, what this means for AGI timelines, & the concrete signals to watch. www.youtube.com/shorts/gaZK9...

China’s AI gap shrank from a year to a nanosecond. Kimi K2 is beating state-of-the-art Western models, and it’s the first open-source frontier model. Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley break down how power capacity and chip manufacturing scale could flip the race. www.youtube.com/shorts/JkgLY...

Google’s new “nested learning” lets #AI ditch fixed knowledge cutoffs & learn from mistakes, closer to how humans do. Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley unpack what changes for builders: faster updates, fewer stale answers, and more resilient models. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/WTYIm...

Adobe just dropped its biggest AI upgrade: custom models, copyright‑cleared content, & Gen Studio that builds full brand books in minutes. We cut through the hype to show what actually changes for design teams & whether this finally pressures Figma and Canva. www.youtube.com/shorts/R6RRq...

Anthropic tried “Inception” on Claude & it noticed. From “I can’t stop thinking about bananas” to real-time detection of thought injection, Ulysses Maclaren & Sam Wagner talk talk about AI metacognition, safety, & ethics www.youtube.com/shorts/1-4GZ...

OpenAI’s road to an IPO decoded: from nonprofit origins to a profit-driven structure, what changed in the Microsoft deal, & the key claims in Elon Musk’s lawsuit. Learn how these shifts could reshape AGI governance, developer access, & safety commitments in <1min! www.youtube.com/shorts/JH8mo...

GitHub Copilot vs Cursor 2.0 just escalated: both launched multi-agent workflows this week, & we break down what each gets right, where they differ, & why your API keys are finally safe (no more leaking across agents). Get the takeaways before you pick a tool. www.youtube.com/shorts/gZOMI...

Join us for the next Brisbane Full Stack User Group with Gordon Beeming! Fail fast & often - that's DevOps wisdom, right? This talk walks through a year of shipping real projects by learning to orchestrate instead of implement www.meetup.com/brisbane-ful...

Clippy is back? Or is he?! 👀🤣 Say hello to Miko, Microsoft's new AI assistant! Smarter than Clippy, Miko is here to revolutionize your work and personal life. Is this the future we've been waiting for? 🤖✨ Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/AB_vY... #Microsoft #MoAI #Copilot #AIAssistant #AIRevolution

🎶 OpenAI just stepped into the music scene, and not everyone’s clapping. Michael Smedley & Gordon Beeming unpack whether this AI will amplify creativity or silence original artists and what it means for musicians, labels, and devs. www.youtube.com/shorts/Fl8j4... #OpenAI #AIMusic #AICreativity

DeepSeek just compressed a novel into a single sentence. In 60 seconds, Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley explain how extreme text compression could transform OCR pipelines and AI efficiency and why this leap from China matters now. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/m1nbW... #DeepSeek #OCR #AI

Ex‑Meta talent is piling into OpenAI, and the mission is shifting from research to revenue. In under a minute, Ulysses Maclaren & Mike Smedley reveal what this hiring wave signals for product roadmaps, monetization, and whether OpenAI is becoming the new Facebook. www.youtube.com/shorts/lY1SB...

Windows users: are you getting the short end? Ulysses Maclaren & Gordon Beeming unpack OpenAI’s Mac‑first rollout of Atlas, native ChatGPT macOS desktop app, and their big purchase of Sky for Mac automation, and why Windows is waiting... Watch www.youtube.com/shorts/BKzLv... #OpenAI #ChatGPT

🤖🔥New AI News! Atlas is OpenAI’s new browser, and it might reshape your workflow. Michael Smedley and Gordon Beeming cut through the hype with a fast, practical look at what makes it different and who it’s for. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/OjYJc... #OpenAI #AtlasBrowser #ChatGPT #AIRevolution

Cut AI coding spend by ~70% without losing quality. SSW's Mike Smedley & Luke Cook discuss how SSW routes code reviews, test generation, and PR summaries to Claude Haiku 4.5, It's fast, capable, and much cheaper, while reserving “super brain” models only when needed.

🤖 AI News: Move beyond #RAG and MCPs: see how #Claude Skills turns a simple markdown file into an executable agent, combining workflows, data connectors, and tool integrations for enterprise automation. Plus: what this means for #OpenAI & #Microsoft. 👀-> www.youtube.com/shorts/1U3r0...

🔥 Not another AI hot take - hear Google’s real edge: Maps inside Gemini. & break down hyper‑local recommendations, a Traveling Salesman win, and “when + where” intent that marketers can monetize in real time. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/NOvUH... #GoogleGemini #GoogleMaps

🤖 AI News: Why AGI stays “10 years away for the next 10 years.” Karpathy (OpenAI/Tesla) has broken down what LLMs can and can’t do, from “vibe coding” to real capability gaps. SSW's Luke Cook & Michael Smedley discuss his points. www.youtube.com/shorts/53ipV... #Karpathy #AIRealityCheck #LLM

We had such an amazing time hosting an incredible AI event on Saturday with the AgentCon team here at SSW Brisbane! 🧑‍💻 150 developers 📢 12 speakers 🎥 2 tracks 🍕 80 pizzas Thank you to all the amazing speakers and organisers! This event couldn't have happened without their community spirit!

OpenAI just moved beyond models: AgentKit (Agent SDK), built-in payments, Codex updates, and real app hooks (Canva, Expedia). Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley explain why AgentKit may be OpenAI’s smartest move & when to pick it over Autogen/Semantic Kernel. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/XAWvZ...

OpenAI + AMD = 6 GW of GPU power - enough to run multiple cities. Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley break down how OpenAI is moving to own the full AI stack, chips, data centers, and power—and what this means for Nvidia and the next GPU arms race. #OpenAI #AMD #Nvidia #DataCenters

AI fixing AI is here. DeepMind's CodeMender finds and fixes vulnerabilities in vibe-coded apps - turning risky prototypes into safer, shippable builds. Ulysses Maclaren and Michael Smedley break down what changes for devs and AppSec right now. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/LGPlD...