May 26, 2025
Scott is the Vice President of Product for Azure Developer Experience. He builds all the .NET tools for Azure.
Topics of Discussion:
[1:49] Scott’s Microsoft journey and .NET evolution.
[3:39] AI's transformative impact on software development.
[6:08] Using ChatGPT and Deep Research.
[8:41] Software Engineering Agent (Padawan).
[11:20] Model Context Protocol (MCP).
[11:51] GitHub workflow for agent-driven development.
[15:53] Handling repetitive or non-fun development tasks.
[19:41] How AI will bring back the tech for us.
[21:15] Azure Spring Apps and modernization tools.
[23:39] The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Agent, which helps monitor and manage cloud applications, reducing pager hits and automating common tasks.
[29:02] Reducing developer toil so there’s more time to do what they want to do.
[31:22] The future organizational philosophy shift that may happen, while Scott reminds us that for the time being, you are still the operator and still in control.
[33:37] The development of prompt libraries in tools like Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio to help developers create detailed prompts.
[38:18] Scott emphasizes the importance of continuous feedback from developers to improve AI tools and make them more effective.
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