5 posts tagged #ai
You don't need a credit card to start building AI features. Here's the free stack I'd use today: NVIDIA's hosted models, Ollama with Qwen3 on your own PC, Tavily for web search, and free embeddings for RAG, all wired into .NET.
Agent Framework 1.0, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, MCP and Copilot agents have changed .NET development a lot this year. Here's what I'm seeing as a .NET and AI engineer, and what I think we should learn next.
OmniRoute promises over a billion free AI tokens a month by routing across hundreds of providers. I tried it before paying for Claude Pro. Here's what the numbers really mean, what my experience was like, and why I think every engineer should try a pro model at least once.
How I built an MCP server in ASP.NET Core for my interview bank and this blog, how function calling and MCP tools actually work, and how I now write and publish posts just by talking to Claude. Plus the downside of adding too many tools.
YouTube tutorials, Stack Overflow, Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor and now Claude Code. A .NET developer's look at how the way we learn and write code has changed, and what has stayed the same.
