Scott is the Vice President of Product for Azure Developer Experience. He builds all the .NET tools for Azure.

 

Topics of Discussion:

[1:49 ] Scott’s Microsoft journey and .NET evolution.

[3:39 ] AI's transformative impact on software development.

[6:08 ] Using ChatGPT and Deep Research.

[8:41 ] Software Engineering Agent (Padawan).

[11:20 ] Model Context Protocol (MCP).

[11:51 ] GitHub workflow for agent-driven development.

[15:53 ] Handling repetitive or non-fun development tasks.

[19:41 ] How AI will bring back the tech for us.

[21:15 ] Azure Spring Apps and modernization tools.

[23:39 ] The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Agent, which helps monitor and manage cloud applications, reducing pager hits and automating common tasks.

[29:02 ] Reducing developer toil so there’s more time to do what they want to do.

[31:22 ] The future organizational philosophy shift that may happen, while Scott reminds us that for the time being, you are still the operator and still in control.

[33:37 ] The development of prompt libraries in tools like Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio to help developers create detailed prompts.

[38:18 ] Scott emphasizes the importance of continuous feedback from developers to improve AI tools and make them more effective.

 

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