Daniel Cazzulino

Devlooped.Extensions.AI 0.8.0 Extensions for Microsoft.Extensions.AI

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...

Clint Eastwood's quote on what libertarianism is

“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

Exclusive: Samsung's $37B U.S. chip project to total 7M square feet by 2028 The city of Taylor in Texas has curbed its financial incentives for Samsung Electronics' $37 billion semiconductor manufacturing project in new amendments as construction lags and a global chip glut…

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

Allow initializing/setting/changing log level for an MCP server · Issue #256180 · microsoft/vscode Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No VS Code Version: Version: 1.103.0-insider (user setup) Commit: b5d2dfb Date: 2025-07-15T12:10:44.428Z Electron: 35.6.0 ElectronBuildI...

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: The End of ConsoleApplication128 SmallSharp 2.0: The End of ConsoleApplication128 The New Era: dotnet run app.cs With .NET 10, you can now run a single C# file directly: dotnet run app.cs No project file, no ceremony. Just write…

🚀 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!

I've been playing with @github #spark quite a bit tonight. It definitely needs MCP tool access/setup in order to truly leverage AI. My app needs to do a web search on IMDB movies and it fails with "As an AI language model, I cannot access or retrieve live data from external websites such as IMDb."

China’s construction of new coal-power plants ‘reached 10-year high’ in 2024 - Carbon Brief A “resurgence” in construction of new coal-fired power plants in China is “undermining the country’s...

Someone either doesn't give a damn about "global warming" or they know something the west doesn't:

#grok knows the best way to calculate things is writing some code and running it, rather than dumb token prediction. @xai is kicking ass. I love that they ditched the "Deep search" and "Think" buttons in favor of Just Working.

I guess now it's the other side's turn to cry "lawfare!". Good luck with that. Didn't work that great for our former president and vice-president Cristina Kirchner now in JAIL confirmed by the Supreme Court. Rampant corruption exposed can have that effect 🤷‍♂️

You can clearly tell @AWS was created in an era where @dotnet #SignalR didn't exist. I feel like I have to manually refresh everything in the console every now and then. Feels like a 2000's web app. @Azure is soooo much better in this regard. Everything is instantaneous.

Scheduling @xai #grok tasks (full v4 prompts, plus another prompt for filtering notifications depending on the results!) for recurring deep search and analysis is just bonkers. Competition with @OpenAI is fierce, and us consumers are benefiting tremendously. What a time to be alive!
grok.com/tasks

The "elicitation" of user input from #MCP in @code is pretty sleek. Here I moved the LaTeX rendering preferences to user input if not set (via env/config), from first tool run to successful render. Sleek as hell, and in a trivial single-file @dotnet run .cs!
Source: github.com/devlooped/sm...

TIL: in addition to ${workspaceFolder}, you can use ${/} to have a platform-agnostic path separator in your mcp.json file in @code. Almost surely old news for pretty much everyone 🤭

VSCode rendering LaTeX as images inline with the text

Yeah, I know @code does not support rendering LaTeX equations in the @github #copilot chat window. But with @grok 4 help, I could teach it how, using @dotnet 10 run file #MCP. Will blog tomorrow. It was a fun day 🔥

How to use Grok 4 without SuperGrok subscription Grok 4 was just announced and it looks incredible. So you want to try it out, but are hesitant to shell out $300/year for the subscription just to try it out. Here are the steps to use it daily…

How to use #grok 4 without a SuperGrok subscription, leveraging @code and @OpenRouterAI: www.cazzulino.com/grok4-vscode...

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Now playing with @grok 4 using #dotnet Microsoft.Extensions.AI with my own Grok-specific extensions to leverage it fully. So much fun 💪

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Friendly reminder @VisualStudio that it's mid-2025 and I'm still using a product named *2022*. Just drop the year in the next preview update get over it already.

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Enjoy full-width response message bubbles in #WhatsApp web: gist.github.com/kzu/51fe3d60...

Rename Sampling to Chathooks · modelcontextprotocol · Discussion #484 Pre-submission Checklist I have verified this would not be more appropriate as a feature request in a specific repository I have searched existing discussions to avoid duplicates Your Idea Sampling...

Proposal: Rename Sampling to Chathooks in Model Context Protocol
Let's get a non-confusing term it! github.com/orgs/modelco...

Self reminder: MCP sampling == chathooks (aka webhooks but for chatbots).

In Kill Decision by Daniel Suárez, a protagonist wanted to make code sleek, so he used #dotnet C# 🫶

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The Law by Frédéric Bastiat (free with your @spotify premium) is an eye opening book. If you think lobbies by vested interests sounds fishy, you owe it to yourself to listen to it.
And this quote is a pretty accurate summary of the core idea.

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Extension operators for #dotnet 10 coming in preview 7! 🔥

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Detect and suggest updating dotnet global tools · Issue #42917 · dotnet/sdk Most CLI tools nowadays notify users of updates that can be installed (i.e. ngrok, gh cli, etc.). In many cases, they can update themselves. This is currently impossible to achieve from within dotn...

New in #dotnet 10 preview 6, ability to run dotnet tools without first installing them, npx style 🔥

"For us, politics is not the art of the possible. It is the art of making possible what the CASTE says is impossible." - Javier Milei @JMilei

Bold, bullish prediction from Morgan Stanley on the "rapid expansion" of the Waymo (and Zooks?!) fleet in the next 5 years.

I wonder how Tesla is ever gonna catch-up given they produce that many Model 3/Y in the US for 1/4 the price each every ~4 DAYS 🤭

Today was Zero to One moment for Tesla. Exciting times ahead!

Talking to @GitHub copilot on github.com about my code (and other's in their own repos!) is quickly turning into a life saver. Here I was trying to recall where I last used Mono.Options and realizing I don't have to :), #copilot can do it for me.