🔥 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...

AI is turning into a transaction platform. Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley break down OpenAI’s built-in payments—letting users and ChatGPT agents buy directly in chat—and how it compares to Google’s AP2. Get the dev/product takeaways and what to do now. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/9360Z...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 can now put you in the shot with Cameos, and it’s going toe‑to‑toe with Google’s V3. Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley break down quality wins, risks, and what this means for your digital identity. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/MndBy... #Sora2 #Cameos #AIVideo #GoogleV3

Stanford says up to 41% of enterprise content is AI "work slop." 😬 In today's AI news, Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley unpack how sloppy Claude/GPT use erodes trust, and the practical guardrails teams can adopt to avoid it. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/tb0WO... #ResponsibleAI #GenerativeAI

Claude 4.5 Sonnet just maxed the bench-verified coding benchmark, outperforming Opus 4.1 on real software tasks. 30 hours straight? Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley break down what this means for devs and whether humans must stay in the loop. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/v10nR...

Google #DeepMind’s Frontier Safety Framework 3.0 tackles the thorniest risk: shutdown resistance. Ulysses Maclaren and Michael Smedley explain what it is, how it’s tested, and why it could shift a conversation long led by Anthropic, so builders and policymakers know what changes next. #AISafety

Want a clear breakdown of Google’s Agent Payment Protocol #AP2? Ulysses Maclaren and Michael Smedley explain how AI agents paying each other could unlock direct creator payouts and new content access models, and what to prepare for now. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/vnvtV... #GoogleAI #AIAgent

Skip the hype, get a sharp breakdown of NVIDIA’s $100B bet on OpenAI from SSW’s Ulysses Maclaren & Mike Smedley: why now, what it signals for compute and model training, and how it could reshape the global tech landscape. Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/wBgXX... #NVIDIA #OpenAI #AIInvestment

📽️ New Video from SSW TV: Did you miss Troy Hunt's awesome talk last week for the Sydney .NET User Group? 🥲 We recorded it! 🎉 Hear all of Troy's learnings from billions of data breaches and discover how you've already been pwned! Watch now: lnkd.in/dYnj7t-6 #security #data #databreaches

Don't miss tomorrow night's User Group with @TroyHunt live from SSW Sydney. His talk "Lessons from Billions of Breached Records" will share his experience with billions of breached records, some of the causes, and more! Join us live www.meetup.com/sydney-net-u...

What an incredible week we had in Copenhagen last week for NDC Conferences! We would like to say thank you to the NDC team and everyone who came to say hello! Hopefully, you are all YakShaving your bugs and features now! 🐛🤖 We hope to see you in Lisbon! 👋

Let's go NDC Copenhagen!! 👋 Join us over the next few days for some great talks, fun swag, and to learn about some great tools that will make your life as a developer much easier! #NDC #developertools #AI #CMS

Ever wished reporting a bug was as easy as pressing record? 🎥🪓 Check out Adam Cogan’s blog on YakShaver, the AI-powered tool that turns your screen‑recorded bug or feature idea into a fully structured work item - in just 30 seconds. Less yak-shaving more coding! adamcogan.com/2025/05/14/a...

We are still recovering from an amazing weekend with the SSW Melbourne team at their annual retreat! This year we went to Kryal Castle, home of swords, dragons, jousting, and murder mysteries!! ⚔️🐲 Then the next day, we recovered with a beautiful walk around La Gerche Forest! 🚶🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️

🧠 Are you missing out on harnessing your most valuable resource? 3 times a year, we take a day away from consulting to brainstorm ideas with the team. It's brought about some of our best products, like YakShaver, and this year is no different. We can't wait to share some of the ideas with you!

🎥 New video: Health Check Infrastructure One flaky API can quietly break your entire app — and by the time you notice, users are already frustrated. Watch it here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdA5...

🎥 New video: AI Assisted Development for Enterprise "Vibe coding" might feel productive, but it’s how you end up with AI-built Frankenfeatures. Watch it here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ke-... #ai #githubcopilot #chatgpt #nextjs #softwaredevelopment #developerworkflow #enterprisetech

🎉 Happy 3-year SSWversary to Gert Marx! Gert is a powerhouse Solution Architect whose 20+ years of experience show up in every project he touches. From healthcare to government, his work has consistently turned complexity into clarity with robust, high-performing solutions. Thanks Gert!

🚨 New Rule Alert! "Do you protect your team's creativity?" by Anton Polkanov highlights the things that foster creativity under pressure. 💡 Check out his video about creativity vs burnout for your team 👇 ssw.com.au/rules/protec... #creativity #softwaredevelopment #leadership 🤖

🎉 Happy 2-year SSWversary to Chloe Lin! Chloe is a front-end force based in our Strasbourg office, blending precision and creativity across React, Vue, and .NET. She’s delivered everything from sleek websites to complex ERP systems, always with a sharp focus on user experience. Thanks Chloe!