Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)

Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)

@reed.wiedower.com

Working hard to automate myself out of a job. A man is as big as what'll make him mad.

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Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
@reed.wiedower.com

Advanced GenAI scenarios now cost money. That creates a dilemma for organizations: how do you get the vast majority of your staff to use the "out of the box" scenarios to drive value at no additional cost? www.linkedin.com/pulse/usage-...

linkedin.comUsage drives "out of the box" thinkingAs others have noted, the arrival of "usage based billing" for AI workloads has caused many organizations to rethink how they have approached driving business value with generative AI tools. Here at C...
Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
@reed.wiedower.com

Microsoft's announcements on Monday around Copilot Wave 3 were quite compelling. Yet most organizations still don't understand that to get *value* from Copilot - you need to start simple. I explain why here: www.linkedin.com/posts/rwiedo...

linkedin.comCrawl, Walk, Run with Copilot + Agents | Reed WiedowerCrawl, walk, then run. It sounds simple - but with the allure of Copilot Agents many organizations find themselves throwing information workers into the deep end before they are ready to construct Age...
Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
@reed.wiedower.com

Love seeing these facilities!

Mary Branscombe@marypcbuk.bsky.social

if you like cable porn, the network cabling in the Azure Fairwater data centres is *chef's kiss* the things that look like hoses at a gas station bring the closed loop direct water cooling to the GPUs. some of the chips have these *etched channels* for cooling hotspots with microfluidics

Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
@reed.wiedower.com

Very very true especially with Copilot Agents:

Justin Searls@searls.bsky.social

TDD is more important than ever

justin.searls.coTDD is more important than everLately, I've been reminded of the heady days of my agile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development) youth by how often I've found myself asking, "how will we test this?" As I've mentioned frequently on podcasts and recent Q&As about AI, an odd paradox has emerged in the software industry: 1. Developers experienced in agile engineering practices like test-driven development tend to be among the most skeptical of AI code generation, often citing fears that software quality is being thrown out the window 2. Developers experienced in agile engineering practices like test-driven development tend to be among the most successful at building great software with coding agents, often citing creative techniques enabling agents to verify the correctness of their work In the late 2000s, I always knew I was talking to a solid programmer if their first question upon being handed a complex task was to ask, "how will we test this?" Agile developers learned back then that literally everything hinged on establishing a fast, reliable, automated way to verify your code fulfilled its intended purpose. Without tests, you can't refactor aggressively, deploy frequently, or delete safely. Over the 2010s, many of us learned patterns and heuristics that allowed us to take shortcuts and tone down our testing zeal in the name of pragmatism and efficiency, but the underlying skill of concocting ways to verify our code never stopped being valuable. Well, here we are again. In 2025, the only thing that matters when it comes to coding agents like Claude Code and Codex CLI is to ensure they are equipped with the tools they need to independently verify the correctness of their work.
Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
@reed.wiedower.com

Very eager to see the cavalcade of news hitting while I am sitting in the Chase Arena. Some of these are going to sound more like a starting gun at a race...

Frank X. Shaw@fxshaw.com

A bit of news to start the day! blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

blogs.microsoft.comMicrosoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships - The Official Microsoft BlogAnthropic to scale Claude on Azure Anthropic to adopt NVIDIA architecture NVIDIA and Microsoft to invest in Anthropic Today Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced new strategic partnerships. Anthro...

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Tom Warren
@tomwarren.co.uk

BREAKING: Microsoft has just announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic. It brings Claude AI models to Azure, and also sees Anthropic commit to purchase $30 billion of Azure compute capacity. Nvidia + Microsoft also investing in Anthropic. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/822988/...

theverge.comMicrosoft’s new Anthropic partnership brings Claude models to AzureMicrosoft and Nvidia are also investing into Anthropic as part of new strategic partnerships.
Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
@reed.wiedower.com

LLMs are super useful for a variety of scenarios. AGI is a myth. Those two statements can both be true!

Windows Central@windowscentral.com

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, is challenging the pessimistic predictions that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will replace the human race.

windowscentral.comMicrosoft's AI Chief, Mustafa Suleyman, says "it's crazy to actually declare" that superintelligence will replace our speciesMustafa Suleyman continues spreading his humanist superintelligence gospel, but says not many AI research labs subscribe to this notion.
Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
@reed.wiedower.com

You shouldn't underestimate the challenge in getting staff to use new tools, even if the benefits are "obvious" to some. Meeting them in the tools they use is key to how Cognizant drove up Copilot behavior: www.linkedin.com/pulse/changi...

linkedin.comChanging Staff AI Behavior PositivelyIt has now been over two years since the AI explosion - and we've seen a huge amount of energy expended to harness large language models to solve business challenges. What we haven't seen, in that tim...

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Tom Warren
@tomwarren.co.uk

Microsoft has a new small language model, dubbed Mu. It powers the new Settings AI agent inside Windows 11, and is offloaded fully onto NPUs on Copilot+ devices blogs.windows.com/windowsexper...

blogs.windows.comIntroducing Mu language model and how it enabled the agent in Windows SettingsWe are excited to introduce our newest on-device small language model, Mu. This model addresses scenarios that require inferring complex input-output relationships and has been designed to operate eff...
Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
@reed.wiedower.com

I will admit - hearing this sound when it starts up - I smiled involuntarily.

Tom Warren@tomwarren.co.uk

Microsoft has accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Windows Vista's 😲 The boot sound switch is in the latest preview build of Windows 11, and Microsoft says it's a bug it will fix. Full details: www.theverge.com/news/687417/...

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Windows Central
@windowscentral.com

It's official! Microsoft is launching new Intel Lunar Lake versions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 with anti-reflective screens — but only for business customers. DETAILS: https://buff.ly/4glMEsf 💻

buff.lyMicrosoft launches its first Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs with new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, and they're shockingly expensiveIntel is finally available in the latest Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7, but only for businesses, and for an eyewatering $1,499.
Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
@reed.wiedower.com

An interesting thread about DeepSeek - although I still feel strongly that the current control plane of control for AI (e.g. Microsoft Business Chat) is a more important battle than whether GenAI needs X amount of chips to run properly.

Anil Dash@anildash.com

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
@reed.wiedower.com

The ability to quickly flip through accounts is great.

Bluesky@bsky.app

📢 Bluesky 1.96.5 rolling out now A couple of quick updates for everybody! Have a great weekend! • On desktop web, clicking your profile pic now opens a quick account switcher • You can now report a DM conversation without opening it • Improvements to gestures on Android

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Tim Mitchell
@tmitch.net

Related: If you aren't paying for the product, you ARE the product.

Kelsey Hightower@kelseyhightower.com

If we are not willing to pay for the products we use, then the products we use will use us.

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kottke.org
@kottke.org

These infographics clearly show the world-changing, lifesaving impact of vaccines on the prevalence of diseases like measles, smallpox, polio, and pertussis. Vaccines are in the running for the greatest human invention ever. [kottke.org]

kottke.orgThe World-Changing Impact of VaccinesBack in 2015, Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman created a series of graphics for the WSJ showing the impact of the introduction of vaccines in the US. Here’s the infographic for measles: And for polio: Vaccines are in
Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)
@reed.wiedower.com

A great thread and why I advise folks to be careful before using blocklists. The safest course is to just block manually and avoid them.

Gianluca Sartori@spaghettidba.bsky.social

I see people linking to block lists and encouraging others to adopt them. I'm a bit skeptical: who compiled those? How do you end in there? How do you get out if added by mistake?

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Jay 🦋
@jay.bsky.team

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

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Joé McKen
@joemcken.net

Today in “be very wary of subscribing to blocklists”: Nazis are creating copycat lists to trick people into blocking tons of good folks.

End Networked Harassment@endharassment.net

This is the next phase that Kiwi Farms members have stated they will do - constructing look-alike blocklists and then adding popular trans people to them after the fact, once the blocklist is seeded in the community. Make sure any block list you use says who runs it.

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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social

I joke about 'yo dawg we heard you like Copilot so we put Copilot in your Copilot' but being able to connect KPIs like faster onboarding or selling more products back to AI tools you've given to staff is how you know if they're actually useful and not just marketing hype #msignite

Reed M. Wiedower (CTO_Reed)@reed.wiedower.com

The biggest news of Microsoft Ignite from a business perspective is Copilot Analytics. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftvivablog/introducing-copilot-analytics-to-measure-ai-impact-on-your-business/4301717 Not requiring orgs to purchase Viva Insights licenses is great - and will let

techcommunity.microsoft.comIntroducing Copilot Analytics to measure AI impact on your business | Microsoft Community HubAI is revolutionizing work today, enhancing productivity and business processes to deliver new value. As AI continues to evolve, measuring usage, adoption...