🔴 Streaming in 10: "Orchestrating advanced multi-agent workflows with Microsoft agent-framework"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtZbDrd-RJg
Covering: concurrency, aggregation, magentic-one, handoffs. Join us!

Structured routing

Here are all the links for my live stream today on "Building your first AI-driven workflows" with Microsoft agent-framework:

📺 Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQtZ...

💻 Code: aka.ms/python-agent...

🛝 Slides: aka.ms/pythonagents...

📑 Write-up: github.com/Azure-Sample...

🔴 Streaming in 10: Building your first LLM-driven workflows with Microsoft agent-framework
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQtZCKWjARI

Squirrel pic

Also the occasional... SQUIRREL!

Feed of 3 images of birds at webcam

I was gifted a webcam-augmented birdfeeder, and it's brought so much joy to my life to see the happy birdies frequenting it.

(In this feed: Titmouse, Scrub jay, House finch)

Graph comparing system prompts

Great post that breaks down the system prompts across 6 coding agents:
https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/10/system-prompts-define-the-agent-as-much-as-the-model.html

(Now I want to do a breakdown of the GitHub Copilot prompt-
I'm always using Chat Debug view in VS Code to check out what it sends)

First rows of bullshitbench with results

BullshitBench: a benchmark that measures whether models detect nonsense, call it out clearly, and avoid confidently continuing with invalid assumptions.
https://github.com/petergpt/bullshit-benchmark

Built-in evaluators for AI agents

Our Thursday Python+Agents livestream was all about observability, quality evaluation, and safety evaluation via red-teaming.

Recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yS-...

Slides:
aka.ms/pythonagents...

Annotated write-up:
github.com/Azure-Sample...

GitHub - dbreunig/whenwords: A relative time formatting library, with no code. A relative time formatting library, with no code. Contribute to dbreunig/whenwords development by creating an account on GitHub.

WhenWords: An open-source library without code
github.com/dbreunig/whe...
(From @dbreunig.bsky.social, an expert at getting coding agents to build working code based off specs alone)

🔴 Live in 10 mins: "Monitoring and evaluating agents"
Part 3 in our 6-part series on building with agent-framework,
covering OpenTelemetry, azure-ai-evaluation Python SDK, and automated red teaming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yS-G-NEBu8

Slide with title "Context is everything"

Context is everything: In yesterday's livestream, I showed how to improve the context of agents by adding memory and knowledge.

Recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMzI...

Slides:
aka.ms/pythonagents...

Annotated write-up:
github.com/Azure-Sample...

Yeah my partner asked Gemini and it said middleware is a DB ORM! Guess we have too many "middle"s in programming land.

🔴 Live in 10 mins: "Adding context and memory to agents"
Part 2 in our 6-part series on building with agent-framework,
covering sessions, chat history, dynamic memory, RAG, context management techniques.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMzI9cEaGBM

My partner works on backend in Kotlin. His initial reaction was "the backend IS the middleware, right?" ...so somehow his company's Kotlin web framework does not use middleware, or he's just never encountered it.

I talked to my partner about it yesterday, who comes from Kotlin world, and he was new to the term - the closest term was "interceptors" from their gRPC service, which probably are basically middleware.

I think also our crowd is very data science-y too, so you wouldnt have middleware there

I taught the concept of "middleware" in yesterday's talk on agents, and realized I did a poor job teaching it -I didn't appreciate how many developers were new to the general concept of framework middleware. It's common in Python web frameworks, but maybe not for other languages?

YouTube video by Microsoft Reactor Python + Agents: Building your first agent in Python

Yesterday I gave the first talk in our 6-part series about building agents with agent-framework. Catch up with...

Recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4vC...

Slides:
aka.ms/pythonagents...

Annotated write-up:
github.com/Azure-Sample...

Python + Agents banner with talk dates and topics

Me and my colleague @madebygps.com are running a 6-part free livestream series over next 2 weeks in both english + español, showing how to use Microsoft's new agent-framework Python package.

It starts today, with an intro to agents: tool calling, MCP tools, and middleware.
aka.ms/PythonAgents...

The agent-framework livestream series starts tomorrow!
Hope to see you in the YouTube live chat or Discord office hours after.

Thank you, will let you know!

Pamela as speaker for Posette

I'll be speaking at Posette in June!
https://posetteconf.com/2026/

It's a free virtual conference about PostgreSQL, organized by Microsoft colleagues.
My talk will be about Python + MCP + Postgres. See you in the streams!
#PosetteConf

The PostgreSQL team at Microsoft is hiring for a developer advocate, remote-friendly:
https://apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/1970393556753261
I've worked with that team a bunch, and it's a good group of intelligent and friendly people.

Two panel comic. Panel 1: a museum display of a megalodon jaw fossil, with some museum goers standing around it. There is a graphic on the information tablet next to the fossil, depicting the approximation of the megalodon’s full size compared to a human. Panel 2: “3.6 million years ago:” we see the true megalodon as it existed, a small shark with ludicrously large, juicy lips.

TreeMap of HD space

Chart of HD cleanup

I ran out of HD space on my Mac last night, so I downloaded GrandPerspective. I discovered 86 GB of files I could easily delete - old giant repos, cached SLMs, playwright browser binaries, diagnostic dumps, excessively large git LFS objects, etc.

i actually started eating poultry again after reading "flying dinosaurs" cuz I was like "ha, i can eat a dinosaur!!"

Screenshot of codespeak spec

CodeSpeak is a new "language" from the Kotlin creator, where you write a spec describing the program, and it generates the program.
https://codespeak.dev/

I can see this working for utilities/pure functions, but I have a hard time imagining it for full-stack app.

A thumbnail with a dark background that reads "February 19th 8 AM PT VS Code Live: Agent Sessions Day"

Agent Sessions Day is TOMORROW! An event dedicated to multi-agent development in VS Code - with live coding, insights from the product team, and some surprises ✨

🔔 Set notifications on YouTube: youtube.com/live/tAezuMS...

I am using the very latest commit in main! There are a bunch of changes recently and we are trying to keep in sync as much as possible.
I'm going to work on the HITL slides later this week, which are you using specifically? Would love to hear scenarios that others are using.

I got a tutorial accepted for PyCon US 2026!
"Build your first MCP server in Python"

Hope to see lots of you in Long Beach in May 🌊
https://us.pycon.org/2026/

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters