El Bruno

⚠️ 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…

⚠️ 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! Two weeks ago, I shipped t2i — a terminal-first CLI for text-to-image generation. Today I’m excited to announce two major additions that make t2i even more powerful: GPT-Image-1.5 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! I just shipped t2i, a terminal-first CLI tool for ElBruno.Text2Image. Generate images from your shell in two commands — no UI, no browser, just a simple cli interface to 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. Hi! So, I’ve been away from any scenario that involves and needs data mapping, until I get to OpenClawNet. So I got to the point that I need to map my entities to DTOs? I read this a lot…

⚠️ 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! When Microsoft announced MAI-Image-2, I immediately thought: “I need to add this to ElBruno.Text2Image. Today.” So I did. 😄 MAI-Image-2 is Microsoft’s new image generation model on…

⚠️ 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. The Microsoft Bing Search team just dropped something big: 👉 https://blogs.bing.com/search/April-2026/Microsoft-Open-Sources-Industry-Leading-Embedding-Model They’ve open-sourced a new…

⚠️ 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! Earlier this year, Andrej Karpathy tweeted about using LLMs as “knowledge compilers” — a mind-bending idea: instead of asking an LLM questions, feed it raw data (papers, code, images)…