El Bruno

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. The geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. TL;DR Someone asked me to add Inkling — Thinking Machines’ shiny new open-weights model — to ElBruno.LocalLLMs. I did the evaluation, and the answer is: not for now. 🔴 Inkling is a 975B-parameter, Mixture-of-Experts, multimodal (text + image + audio) model. My library runs local LLMs in .NET…

This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. I used them to organize ideas and write a first draft, but the workflow, the code, the testing, and the 🤖 enthusiasm are mine. Hi! I like reading AI news. I do not like opening seven tabs, comparing five versions of the same announcement, and wondering whether the most important developer update was hidden under an article about a robot…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. Hi! If you have been playing with Foundry Local to run AI models on your own machine, you probably ran into the same thing I did: you never really know what is running. You load a model…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. Hi! Part 1 of the CopilotHarness series Big models are great for heavy thinking. But what about simple questions — “rename this variable”, “write a short docstring”, “what does this…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. Hi! If you are building local AI apps in C#, you quickly hit a practical gap: Foundry Local SDK is great for local/on-device inference. Microsoft.Extensions.AI and Microsoft Agent…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. Hi! For a long time, many of us used GitHub Copilot as if it were unlimited magic: autocomplete, chat, agent mode, code review, increasingly powerful models, massive context, and…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. Hi! Microsoft Build brought a wave of new AI model announcements, and one of the fun ones for image generation is MAI-Image-2.5. So, of course, I had to add support for it in my .NET image…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. One of the most interesting announcements in the recent VS Code 1.122 release is that Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) models can now be used without signing in to GitHub. VS Code now supports…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. Hi! What happens when a Python-based AI agent and a .NET-based AI agent need to work together? That is the idea behind MAF-A2A-NVIDIA-NemoAgents…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. TL;DR This was the final ElBruno.NetAgent experiment: GitHub Copilot CLI + SQUAD using Azure OpenAI GPT-5.5 BYOK against the same app-building challenge I previously tried with CPU-only…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. TL;DR This is part 3 of my GitHub Copilot CLI + BYOK experiment series. After testing local models on CPU and GPU, I moved the same experiment to Azure OpenAI using GPT-5-mini through BYOK.…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. Hi! Some of these started as small pet projects. IE: a quick helper for a demo, a tiny tool for a conference, a library to avoid repeating the same code again and again, or one of those…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. TL;DR After my first CPU-only experiment with GitHub Copilot CLI and local models, I wanted to try the same idea again, but this time with a GPU-powered setup. The first experiment proved…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. TL;DR I tested GitHub Copilot CLI running offline with local models on a CPU-only Microsoft Dev Box. The short version: Ollama worked for basic offline prompts, but struggled with…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. Hi! If you’re running Ollama locally on Windows—whether you’re tinkering with LLMs, building local AI demos, or just curious about the overhead of large models—you’ve probably wondered: Is…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. Hi! dotnet tool install --global ElBruno.AspireMonitor aspiremon What it is AspireMonitor is a Windows tray app that puts your Aspire AppHost status one click away. No browser tabs. No…

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine. Hi! usually hide my taskbar clock while recording videos, and after doing that dance one too many times, I had one goal: save a few clicks. Then yesterday, during a GitHub Copilot CLI…