It seems that junior developers hiring is way down from where it used to be based on articles like this one, for example: https://byteiota.com/developer-hiring-crisis-2026-40-worse-junior-drops-73/ That’s attributed to the rise of AI-assisted development, and I guess that makes sense. Of course the problem that is often mentioned in the context of these stats is that, without… Read More »
Anthropic published a research paper back in March, and it has a nice diagram of the theoretical vs observed AI exposure by occupational category. For example, Computer & Math category is highly exposed in theory (AI can do a lot there), but, in practice, AI is underused there still. I am not going to tell… Read More »
To be honest, I don’t really know how and what to write about Power Platform anymore. I mean, of course, Power Platform is still there, I still do work in that space, I see a lot of benefits to having the ability to call all those connectors, I still think Power Apps make it easier… Read More »
When setting up an agent in the Copilot Studio, one of the things we could and should be doing is providing instructions. Sometimes, we’d be using those instructions to define constraints. Well, at least that’s part of what instructions are supposed to be used for. You can find some example here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/guidance/generative-mode-guidance And to some… Read More »
To use an MCP server, you don’t necessarily need to ask your agent users to provide their credentials. However, on my first attempt to add my test MCP server as a tool to a Copilot Studio agent I got stuck on the message below: Let’s get you connected first, and then I can find that… Read More »
I constantly feel overwhelmed by everything LinkedIn is throwing at me. It’s something most of us can probably relate to, and it’s been bothering me for a while. In tech, it seems most of us have to be “jacks of all trades” to an extent – I am not sure if anyone has the luxury… Read More »
I mean, with all due respect to the investors and overhyped folks who would be saying AI is a real thing, it seems it would be a way more earnest perspective to admit it is a toy, for now. Because, well, toys tend to break, they are not meant for the “real world”. So there… Read More »
Over a year ago, I blogged about GC Web implementation in Power Pages: Just to re-cap, it’s a completely custom power pages web site that’s not using entity forms or lists, and, instead, that’s relying on the Javascript/Liquid to render the content. Most of the things I blogged about back then have not changed much,… Read More »
I know you won’t like it. I don’t like it myself. And, yet, Power Pages caching has a tendency to be a pain in the neck every now and then. For example, in my case, we store the # of notifications on the contact record (which maps to the “user” object in Liquid). That number… Read More »
Every time we would ask Power Pages to render a non-existing page, we’d receive an error like this: Instead of the one we were actually supposed to see, which would be this: So, ultimately, we ended up opening another support ticket, and, yet again (for the second time in a row with Power Pages cases),… Read More »