Generative AI

In the previous posts, I wrote about speaking at Global Azure ANZ 2026 and the strange speed at which universities seem to be reversing themselves on AI. But the conversation that lingered longest in my head afterwards was about coding itself. Or maybe not coding exactly. More about the feeling of coding. One developer told me they just were not enjoying the new AI coding tools very much. The outputs were fine. Useful even. But something felt missing. The satisfaction had thinned out somehow. ...

In my previous post, What I Learnt Speaking at Global Azure ANZ 2026, I mentioned a short conversation that stayed with me long after the event ended. A university student told me that in 2023 they had been actively discouraged from using AI during study. Minutes later, another student casually described using AI throughout nearly everything they worked on. Those two conversations happened back-to-back. And honestly, they captured something important about the current moment better than most keynote presentations do. ...