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This Week I Learned -  * Python turns 35 this month. It started as a hobby project in 1991.  * A sovereign cloud is a type of cloud service where data is both legally protected and physically stored within a country’s borders. Global spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is expected to reach $80 billion in 2026, marking a 35.6% increase from 2025, according to Gartner. * Just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users pay for it * Kimi K2.5 is an open-source model from Moonshot AI. Kimi K2.5 Built as a native multimodal model, K2.5 delivers state-of-the-art coding and vision capabilities and a self-directed agent swarm paradigm. Kimi K2.5 is available via Kimi.com, the Kimi App, the API, and Kimi Code. Kimi.com & Kimi App now supports 4 modes: K2.5 Instant, K2.5 Thinking, K2.5 Agent, and K2.5 Agent Swarm (Beta). Beyond text prompts, K2.5 excels at coding with vision. By reasoning over images and video, K2.5 improves image/video-to-code generation and visual d...

In 2026, the landscape for online IDEs has shifted toward "AI-native" environments. Most platforms now offer a free tier that includes a chat assistant, though they usually limit the number of "high-reasoning" (GPT-4 or Claude 3.5/4 level) queries you can make per month. Check out this list of online code editors for web apps that feature built-in AI chat, perfect for getting started at no cost: 1. Firebase Studio is Google's modern browser-based IDE with Gemini AI chat/assistance built-in for code generation, debugging, explanations, refactoring, and even agent-driven workflows. Excellent for web apps, supports frameworks like React, Next.js, etc., live previews, and easy deployment. It has built-in Gemini chat and code completion. Because Firebase Studio was designed "for the AI era," it excels at adding Gemini-powered features (chat interfaces, content generation, personalization, etc.) into web apps. You can prototype AI flows (model inference, ag...

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It's interesting how the UI/UX of AI assistants has been evolving over time.  The interaction options with each individual Chat and a Conversation thread have gradually expanded over time.  ChatGPT Gemini Grok Chat Copy  Good response Bad response Share  Try Again Branch in new Chat  Read Aloud Report Message Good response  Bad response  Copy response Double check response  Listen  Export to Docs Draft in Gmail Export to Replit  Report Legal issue Regenerate  Read Aloud  Start Thread (2/26) Copy  Create share link  Love it  Needs improvement  Report Issue  Export to PDF Conversation Share  Start a group chat Rename  Pin Chat Archive  Delete Share  Pin  Rename  Delete Rename  Pin  Delete Claude Copilot Perplexity Chat Copy Give positive feedback Give negative feedback Retry Go...

This Week I Learned -   * "Programming is the art of making the ambiguous incredibly specific through sculpting. AI sculpting is less about vibes and more about finding the specificity you want and keeping the system stable through changes. Good SDLC practices still matter, historical context still matters, and knowing how things work matters" - Scott Hanselman   * "I believe literally every prediction you hear about it (AI) is complete bunk, opinions disguised as knowledge . No one knows, which is uncomfortable, but get used to it. That's the nature of life these days in so many different ways." - Bill Shander * " Anthropic has launched plug-ins for its Claude Cowork agent to automate tasks across sales, productivity, product management, marketing, legal, finance, enterprise search, data, customer support, Bio Research, among others. Essentially, the plug-ins are built to automate specialised tasks across different functions within an organisation. Anthro...

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After learning that 2023 was the world’s hottest year on record, I began tracking the weather more closely. Then 2024 surpassed it , becoming the first calendar year to cross the 1.5°C threshold and set a new record. 2025 brought a series of extreme weather events , with multiple COP climate change summits taking place that have not yielded any concrete results. To stay aware of what's happening around the world and make personal changes, I plan to keep taking notes this year too and adjust my expectations. I've set up a dynamic chart to display weather data for my area (Miyapur) using Zomato's WeatherUnion API like I did in 2025 .     It fails to return data occasionally but seems to be more reliable than the  data provided by Telangana State Development Planning Society which has fewer weather stations (Kukatpally, Serilingampally) and farther away from where I stay. Comparing values from both sources reveal a big difference in minimum temps (avg 6.1°C) b...

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Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich are seasoned tech veterans and iconic figures in the Microsoft community. They share candid conversations about emerging trends and topics relevant to IT professionals through their podcast and on YouTube's channel.

Annotated summary / transcript of Scott Hanselman’s video explaining modern AI agents like Clawdbot / OpenClaw / Moltbot (2025) This will be a bit of a yap, but a lot of people have been asking me about Clawdbot, which was MoltBot, now called OpenClaw. And it is an 1 AI-powered assistant that feels like Jarvis from Tony Stark. It feels like the Siri or Alexa we were promised. And it's got a lot of people really excited. They're starting to make up stuff. Some tech journalists think they are becoming conscious... some AI grifters saying it's 2 AGI, and it's all nonsense. But let's talk about it. So, very large 3 language models – Large Language Models are called 4 Generative Pre-trained Transformers – are basically doing next-token prediction. And they do that based on a whole lot of context. So if I say to you, "It's a beautiful day, let's go to the...", you might say beach or park. But that's a small amount of context. It's a bea...

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