AI

I get a lot of emails like this: Hi! I built an app. Can you take a look at it, give me your feedback, and then help get the word out to your readers? No. I wish I could, but no. But this happens so often that I wanna write a blog post explaining the…

I asked y’all to make the comments on this post look like my ChatGPT history, and y’all understood the assignment. The answers were all over the place from accurate to humorous. Here are the 5 runners-up first, each of whom won a Fundamentals Bundle for themselves or someone they love, since many of these folks…

Let’s start with a 7-minute demo video – I didn’t edit this down because I want you to be able to see what happens in real time. In this video, I point the desktop version of Claude Code at a Github issue for the First Responder Kit and tell it to do the needful: That’s…

LinkedIn is full of absolute trash these days. Just flat out bullshit garbage. (Oh yeah, that – this post should probably come with a language disclaimer, because this stuff makes me mad.) People wanna look impressive without actually putting in the work to gain real knowledge. They’re asking ChatGPT to write viral “expertise” knowledge posts…

I know a lot of y’all lag behind on upgrading SSMS, but v22.3 just introduced something that you need to be aware of. It’s going to impact any of your users who DO upgrade their SSMS, or who use Github Copilot. There’s something that you can do in order to improve Copilot’s code quality and make…

This seems like the appropriate first BrentOzar.com blog post in the year 2026, eh? In the PollGab question queue for Office Hours, MyRobotOverlordAsks asked a question that merited a full blog post answer: My company announced during some AI training that within the next 12 months we won’t be writing any of our own code.…

When you ask data people how they feel about AI, you get pretty rabid, extreme reactions. People either love it or hate it. Set that aside for a second, and let’s zoom out and think about a bigger picture question. What’s it like to work with someone you know, versus a stranger? Known Person Unknown…

You know how you put “https://” at the beginning of web site addresses, and your browser can magically talk to all kinds of web servers, all over the world? Well, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard for AI stuff to talk to other things. It’s like http for AI. It’s less than a…