Seems like a great time to switch to the @xai gRPC-based API for @dotnet github.com/devlooped/xAI/ , which supports all agentic tools, unlike the REST responses API

Bitcent: The 10⁻¹⁰ Dollar Unit for AI Pricing xAI APIs use a "curious" unit for pricing. Let's look at why this unit ($10^{-10}$) makes sense for the AI era and why we should call it the "bitcent".

git stash save + fetch + rebase + stash pop (with conflict detection) in a one-liner. The way interactive Fetch&Rebase in TortoiseGit spoiled me to expect, now powered by @dotnet #dnx: > dnx runfile kzu/run@main:rebase.cs --alias rebase You can now run w/branch even: > dnx runfile rebase main

Wow, what an epic day will Jan 30 be for space enthusiasts!! 3 launches from Cape Canaveral 🤯 🚀One @blueorigin New Glenn 🚀🚀 Two @SpaceX @Starlink

"Power lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind"

TIL you can do: > go run github.com/[OWNER]/[REPO]/[PATH]@[REF] [ARGS]. Would be great to have the same in @dotnet (kinda like what I do with dnx runfile). 🙏 @DamianEdwards @davidfowl

Fun segway into dumping a @Windows app's UI as JSON using UIAutomation (aka accessibility). Kinda like a DOM for Windows? > dnx runfile gist.github.com/kzu/4dcb048c... <process_id> --alias windom

Learning about a source repo using @Google code wiki is pretty incredible. Here's @Microsoft @dotnet agent framework:

How it started | How it's going 🇦🇷🚀

This is exactly what you would expect happens when the government stops sucking every penny of credit from the private sector due to massive deficits.

Doomberg story: Argentina is in a recession. Reality: not at all. @JMilei successfully overcame the "kuka risk"

Pretty awesome that you can now run @dotnet powered grep on any platform with a single command: dnx -y grep www.nuget.org/packages/grep

Using the new @dotnet #runtile feature from #MSBuild is awesome. And editing the C# scripts with full @VisualStudio using #SmallSharp github.com/devlooped/Sm... just completes the whole experience 🔥 github.com/devlooped/ru...

Having the #aspire dashboard integrated in the @azure portal? YEAH! #dotnetconf

MapDevUI in Microsoft Agent Framework is awesome! #dotnetconf #csharp

This is the after (deregulation by @fedesturze and @JMilei) vs before regulations to export Argentinean wine. No wonder Chile exports 3x more until now! www.worldstopexports.com/wine-exports...

I'd like to see a Grok Heavy-powered coding agent from @xai that integrates seamlessly with this @code Unified Experience for all Coding Agents

So more @grokipedia fun: C# history. It added useful info missing on @wikipedia (Ximian then Xamarin entirely absent, white image), until I hit that "C# 13 is latest" (vs C# 14 original). Then I looked at the edits and my mind was fully blown. It wins hands down on accuracy!

Self-correcting Grokipedia on .NET past and present by Grok is fascinating to watch: grokipedia.com/page/.NET

Driving the new #dotnet agent framework from TOML configuration is soooo satisfying! All it takes is one line: var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args); // add config sources builder.AddAIAgents(); // 👈 Give it a try: www.nuget.org/packages/Dev...

I like keeping an eye on what's coming in the #Microsoft #AgentFramework for @dotnet. Cool stuff that can't ship fast enough, hehe

I really really really don't like long strings embedded in my C# code. In agentic AI development (with the new Microsoft Agent Framework), this is even worse since agent instructions/descriptions can be lengthy, and it makes absolutely no sense to build/reload an app just to tweak them

Please @VisualStudio when applying an edit from Copilot, don't re-write (without changes) the sections of the code that don't change. The visual effect (for me) is that I am forced to do the scan for changes as it goes along, and it seems that it could slow down the edit unnecessarily

If I was @Microsoft and owned @GitHub, there's no way I would let this be the status quo of #Windows performance. It's a DISGRACE and makes the whole company look laughable. How can Microsoft's own product be the WORST in his own dev/CI platform?!?!

SponsorLink is dead: long live OSMF

Pretty wild to see my reported #dotnet issue github.com/dotnet/exten... fixed by #copilot in github.com/dotnet/exten... after close interaction with @stephentoub. Wild times.

Now it's your turn @xai to ship a really compelling alternative to @OpenAI #ChatKit. I love fierce competition! openai.github.io/chatkit-js/

What's preventing #Microsoft from providing a #nuget store for the #dotnet ecosystem like www.pkgstore.io?

What I need from @dotnet #aspire is for it to be a tab in @Azure portal for any app (functions, web, etc.). Just like AppInsights Log Stream that "just works" @davidfowl

"This is so much more of a genocide than what is going on in Gaza. Where are the kids protesting this?" - Bill Maher What's going on: chatgpt.com/s/t_68d7d9c7... grok.com/share/bGVnYW... Meanwhile, nice speech from the VP and talk about Gaza @ UN: youtu.be/UaYQm1AtQ0E?...

Recursively delete all bin/obj with @dotnet 10 #runcs file: dnx runcs kzu/run:clean.cs github.com/kzu/run?tab=...

One-liner power by @dotnet #runcs to sync your @Azure keyvault secrets to your local user-secrets to bootstrap local dev: dnx runcs kzu/run:vault2secrets.cs github.com/kzu/run?tab=...

I'd like @dotnet dnx to be the bootstrapper to the whole .NET ecosystem. dnx [email protected] [args] dnx [email protected] [args] should install .NET 10 and 8.0.x (if not previously installed), and run `dotnet` with that SDK version selected. This would allow you to run an app.cs with 10+ to test SxS

Just switched my agent routing model to grok-4-fast (non-reasoning) after testing it. It beats gpt-4o-mini on cost while being ~twice as fast and as accurate as GPT-5 (reasoning=minimal) for my scenario. 🔥

There’s no place for political violence in civil society. That's an easy one to agree on. Incitement of violence is also typically a punishable crime in most civil societies. But since what constitutes incitement is less clear, I think it's also easy to agree on courts determining that.

Ever since C# introduced top-level programs, I've been wanting a full end-to-end scripting experience leveraging all of .NET's capabilities, including NuGet packages, SDKs, Visual Studio for editing, etc. With the goodies in .NET 10 SDK, it's finally possible!

Is there an ETA for @Azure AI Foundry adding the Qwen 3 embedding model which seems to be top-notch according to theMTEB Leaderboard:

Scenarios for @dotnet file keep growing, now with support for `dotnet pack file.cs` github.com/dotnet/sdk/p...

You can now run C# gists directly from the @dotnet CLI with `dnx gist [owner]/[gist]` github.com/devlooped/ru... (see source gist for that screenshot at gist.github.com/kzu/52b115ce... )

Something happened to @nuget around July 15 2025. Most package downloads stalled completely in trends:

How come @openai #codex comes even with Java installed and no @dotnet?!?! Outrageous @davidfowl

My first job as a teenager was marking up prices at a supermarket in Argentina (owned by a friend's family). Every day. Layers upon layers of new prices. Thanks to a democratic socialist party which doesn't know printing money doesn't create prosperity. I was 15yo.

Looking forward to getting a vector search abstraction in @dotnet MEAI: Add HostedFile/VectorStoreContent, HostedFileSearchTool, and HostedCodeInterpreterTool.Inputs by stephentoub · Pull Request #6620 github.com/dotnet/exten...

Testing @OpenAI GPT-5 reasoning effort impact on token and speed with non-trivial prompt: Effort | Time | Tokens Minimal | 2940ms | 157 Low | 26172ms | 836 Medium | 30681ms | 1158 High | 42334ms | 3201 Use it TODAY with @dotnet #csharp www.nuget.org/packages/Dev...

“I guess I’m more libertarian. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Let them do their own thing. Just stay out of everybody’s hair.” — Clint Eastwood

I guess the myth that the US has lost to China and can no longer do any advanced manufacturing is just that: a loser mindset by a few. Samsung's $37B U.S. chip project to total 7M square feet by 2028

I reported an issue with MCP implementation in @code a couple of weeks ago. It was assigned to @github #copilot almost right away, implemented and improved upon by the AI, merged, and shipped in the same week. Issue: github.com/microsoft/vs... PR: github.com/microsoft/vs...

🚀 SmallSharp 2.0: End the ConsoleApplication128 nightmare! With .NET 10's `dotnet run app.cs`, now rock multiple standalone C# files in ONE Visual Studio project. Each with isolated #:package deps & properties, switch startups via dropdown, full IntelliSense/debugging. Like LinqPad/RoslynPad but VS!

The awesome #nugetizer @nuget packager will now turn <Description> Create, edit and run multiple C# top-level programs in the same project, respecting per-file `#:package` references and `#:property` 😍 </Description> Into a single line. C# raw string literals+markdown rules 💯

Editing multiple #dotnet run app.cs files in a single project inside @VisualStudio is coming 💪, with full support for #:package and #:project directives. Just select the file to run and GO!