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Rocky Lhotka

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🧑 he/him 🧑‍💻 #oss #cslanet 🤵 VP @ Xebia; Chief Architect @ Marimer LLC 🎗️ #MicrosoftMVP and RD Program member 🙏 #a11y, #BlackLivesMatter 🏓 #rock, #metal, #LiveMusic, #ttrpg, #travel, #outdoors, #scifi, #fishing linktr.ee/rockylhotka

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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 25/09/2026
A key lesson I've learned for using #ai to build software is to also build the tools so the agent can "close the loop" and validate its own work. That is a powerful accelerator, and a way to avoid having the agent go "off the rails" as it works. blog.lhotka.net/2026/09/25/C...
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Closing the Loop
VP, Open Source Creator, Author, Speaker
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Alvin Ashcraft @alvinashcraft.com · 25/09/2026
Uno Platform 6.7: Your Apps on TVs, Cars, and Watches, Plus More Efficient Skia Rendering buff.ly/i33hK9A #unoplatform #dotnet #crossplatform #appdev #xaml #csharp #mobiledev
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Uno Platform 6.7: Your Apps on TVs, Cars, and Watches, Plus More Efficient Skia Rendering
Uno Platform 6.7 adds Android TV, Android Auto, and Wear OS targets, semantic styles across Material and Simple, Skia damage regions, and OS text scaling.
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Live! 360 Events @live360events.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Six conferences. 200+ sessions. 30+ deep dives. One registration gives you access to: -VSLive! -TechMentor -CyberSecurity & Ransomware Live! -Data Platform Live! -AI Live! -AI Enterprise Architecture Live! Register before the deadline: buff.ly/oLmVkrM
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Richard Campbell @richcampbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How do you build an AI assistant without trusting it with everything? @rocky.lhotka.net joins .NET Rocks to discuss RockBot, an open-source .NET AI assistant built around Kubernetes, containers, and tightly controlled access to services like email and calendars. www.dotnetrocks.com/details/2021
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.NET Rocks!
.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 23/09/2026
#opus 5.5 turns out to be so security limited that it can't test the software it creates, and now there's no fallback to an older version. #claude is in trouble if it can't be used for app dev work!
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 21/09/2026
Using #claudecode as a remote control _server_ makes working with #ai really nice! blog.lhotka.net/2026/09/21/R...
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Claude Code Remote Control Server
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Carl Franklin @carlfranklin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's Code it With AI youtu.be/9-ZuCuKoiD4 episode 46 with @rockfordlhotka and myself premiering Wednesday, Sep 16 at 2PM ET. Presented by @DevExpress
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 19/09/2026
First in some posts about using Claude Code remotely SSH Is Not a Desktop blog.lhotka.net/2026/09/18/S... #ai #claude
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SSH Is Not a Desktop | Rockford Lhotka
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Live! 360 Events @live360events.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You have more time to save. The early bird deadline for the Blazor Developer Accelerator: Hands-On Skills for Real-World .NET Teams has been extended to this Friday, September 18, register before the deadline and save $250. Register before Friday: buff.ly/ArDDxTI
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 13/09/2026
I think back to a year ago, trying to work on #cslanet with #ai tools like #copilot and failing. Today's tools including #claude are easily able to do what couldn't be done then.
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Carl Franklin @carlfranklin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's Code it With AI youtu.be/jeMaclq1oPY episode 45 with Rocky Lhotka and myself premiering Wednesday, Sep 9 at 2PM ET. Presented by @DevExpress
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Carl Franklin @carlfranklin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's Code it With AI youtu.be/WBge6HEojwI episode 44 with Rocky Lhotka and myself premiering Wednesday, Sep 2 at 2PM ET. Presented by @DevExpress
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 30/08/2026
This is why I have had so much fun creating #rockbot: building a good harness is challenging thenewstack.io/building-ai-...
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Your AI agent is only as good as the harness around it - The New Stack
Build production-ready AI agents with effective guardrails, tool contracts, permissions, and tracing systems beyond simple demos.
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Carl Franklin @carlfranklin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It's Code it With AI youtu.be/VN92_Lvh44A episode 43 with Rocky Lhotka and myself premiering Wednesday, Aug 26 at 2PM ET. Presented by @DevExpress
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Carl Franklin @carlfranklin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Coming right up
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️
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Live! 360 Events @live360events.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The early bird deadline for VSLive! San Diego has been extended through this Friday! Join five days of expert-led developer training covering: -Modern .NET -AI-powered development -Azure -Blazor -Full Stack Web Development and more Register before the deadline and save up to $300: buff.ly/ZKYFXtG
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Carl Franklin @carlfranklin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's Code it With AI youtu.be/5JQLdet1Lf8 episode 42 with @rocky.lhotka.net and myself premiering Wednesday, Aug 19 at 2PM ET. Presented by @DevExpress
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Carl Franklin @carlfranklin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Coming right up. Rocky says this has changed his life!
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 12/08/2026
I've spent the last 3 days with people who say button as bu-un, and bottom as bo-um, and interesting as in-eresting. I think it called a dropped-t? Super annoying to those of use who still value the letter T 🫣
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Carl Franklin @carlfranklin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's Code it With AI youtu.be/qKskFmV0_1w episode 41 with @rocky.lhotka.net and myself premiering Wednesday, Aug 12 at 2PM ET. Presented by @DevExpress
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Carl Franklin @carlfranklin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Coming right up! Rocky explains MCPs as only he can.
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Carl Franklin @carlfranklin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's Code it With AI youtu.be/5HkUgB8PsJQ episode 39 with @csharpfritz.com and myself premiering Wednesday, July 29 at 2PM ET. Presented by @DevExpress
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Carl Franklin @carlfranklin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's Code it With AI youtu.be/m4iS3acOlHE episode 40 with @rocky.lhotka.net and myself premiering Wednesday, Aug 5 at 2PM ET. Presented by @DevExpress
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Visual Studio Live! @vslive.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Meet VSLive! San Diego speaker Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert (GDE), Consultant, Speaker & Author. Deborah brings expertise in Angular dev to 2 sessions at VSLive! San Diego, September 14-18, 2026. Explore her sessions here: buff.ly/T4bkrpH
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Jason Bock @jasonbock.net · 26/07/2026
Random.Code() live coding stream - yep, more union serialization work! #dotnet #csharp www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6s1...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a ‘duress’ password built into a phone’s software”
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US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...
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NPR @npr.org · 26/07/2026
Many Native American languages are endangered. With the help of his mentor, a 12-year-old in Michigan hopes to help preserve his language through robotics. n.pr/3TVkrmd
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Meet the robots programmed by kids to speak their Indigenous languages
Many Native American languages are endangered. With the help of his mentor, a 12-year-old in Michigan hopes to help preserve his language through robotics.
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 26/07/2026
Adding union support to the #cslanet CslaGeneratorSerialization. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6s1...
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Random.Code() - Adding Union Support to CslaGeneratorSerialization - Part 3
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 21/07/2026
youtu.be/ZRoLZ8Wwn8Y?... AI is changing how we build, let's get past the hype. I'm speaking @ #VSLive! San Diego (Sept 14–18) on #ai and #blazor Learn more at: vslive.com/sandiego Save $500 when you register with my discount code: LHOTKA na.eventscloud.com/ereg/newreg.... #dotnet
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Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2026
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 21/07/2026
Headless agents are a key part of any #agentic #ai solution blog.lhotka.net/2026/07/20/H...
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Headless Agents | Rockford Lhotka
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 09/07/2026
I'll be speaking at Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) San Diego. It's five days of immersive developer training right on Mission Bay. Learn more: vslive.com/sandiego Save $500 off standard pricing with my exclusive code LHOTKA. Be sure to register by July 17th. na.eventscloud.com/ereg/newreg....
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Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers
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Visual Studio Live! @vslive.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Meet VSLive! San Diego speaker, Alvin Ashcraft. As Snr Content Dev at Microsoft, Alvin brings over 30 years of experience building apps for Windows, mobile & the web. He is the author of two books on .NET and WinUI development. See Alvin’s sessions: buff.ly/K0PtGq8
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Rocky Lhotka 🤘🖖 @rockylhotka.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
#climate info is available once again. arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss…
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Visual Studio @visualstudio.com · 22/06/2026
Fast and flexible. Deep and powerful. 💡 VS Code and Visual Studio bring different strengths to the same workflow. youtu.be/FYTb-r2_q10
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 12/06/2026
Next week, June 17, is the #trailblazor online event, and I'm presenting "Agentic Architecture in Practice: Harness, LLM, Directives" trailblazor.net #ai #agentic
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TrailBlazor Conference – For Microsoft .NET Developers
A free virtual annual conference showcasing creativity and innovation in the Microsoft ecosystem
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 10/06/2026
I've been doing some #github #copilot (GHC) usage testing with the new pricing model - using it exactly as I use #ClaudeCode. GHC uses AIC (AI credits) as a metric. I seem to be using 800-1k per hour while multi-tasking on other things. So let's say I use 1k/hr - seems spendy!
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 30/05/2026
This an excellent article about the reality of using #ai in an organization that doesn't have its sources of truth in order. And I have yet to see one that does. blog.sqlauthority.com/2026/05/29/e...
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Enterprise AI’s Hidden Problem Is Organizational Amnesia - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave
Let us talk Enterprise AI’s Hidden Problem Is Organizational Amnesia in detail.
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 30/05/2026
This looks to be an excellent series on the impact of #ai on the #sdlc medium.com/@alonfliess/...
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The AI SDLC — Why Everything Has to Change, and Yet Stay the Same
Part 1 of a 3-part series on the AI-driven software development lifecycle.
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 30/05/2026
I like how the author frames #ai in this article. stackoverflow.blog/2026/05/28/a...
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In an AI world, the most valuable developers will be both artisans and builders​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​...
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 28/05/2026
I'm talking about #rockbot and #ai #agentic architecture in just over 30 minutes - join me online! www.meetup.com/tulsadevelop...
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Agentic Architecture in Practice: Harness, LLM, Directives by Rocky Lhotka, Thu, May 28, 2026, 6:15 PM | Meetup
## Agentic Architecture in Practice: Harness, LLM, Directives An agent is not just an LLM with tools bolted on. In practice, it’s the combination of three things: a harnes
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 28/05/2026
I created a series of web slides that walk through the philosophy and capabilities of the #rockbot agent (built on the RockBot framework). marimerllc.github.io/rockbot-pres... #ai #agent #agentic
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Agentic Architecture in Practice — Harness · LLM · Directives
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/05/2026
Bluesky isn't a bubble or an echo chamber, it's a garden. You plant some seeds and pull some weeds, you tend to it with care, and you make it into a space that pleases you when you come to sit in it a while. Other people can plant and tend to their own gardens, if they like. This garden is yours.
A colorful riot of tulips and other flowers.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I don’t trade stocks because Arizonans deserve to know my decisions are made for them. Meanwhile, Trump is trading thousands of stocks while Americans struggle to get by. He should be focused on lowering costs, not personally profiting off his position.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 28/05/2026
After becoming cloud computings telemetry standard, OpenTelemetry graduates into the AI infrastructure era by Paul Sawers #Azure thenewstack.io/opentelemetr...
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After becoming cloud computing’s telemetry standard, OpenTelemetry graduates into the AI infrastructure era
7 years in the making, the open-source observability framework that underpins modern cloud gets its formal due.
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Live! 360 Events @live360events.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
From modern web development to AI-powered applications, this is where developers sharpen what they build next. Join us at VSLive! San Diego for immersive training and real-world learning across modern Microsoft development. Register here: VSLIVE.COM/SANDIEGO
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Visual Studio @visualstudio.com · 28/05/2026
SLNX upgrades are way less painful once someone actually shows the workflow 👀 Simple steps, straightforward process. Watch more with Jason Bock from VSLive! Las Vegas: youtu.be/pEfHF9l98Ho
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Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 27/05/2026
Watched the last Colbert episode and canceled #paramountplus
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Rocky Lhotka @rocky.lhotka.net · 18/05/2026
In just a couple weeks I'm speaking at DevSum in Stockholm on building an #ai MCP server in #dotnet www.devsum.se/agenda/build... #DevSum #SoftwareDevelopment #TechConference
devsum.se
Build an MCP Server in C# - DevSum 2026
Join me as I walk through the process of building an MCP server in C# and .NET, including vector encoding your data, using a hybrid search approach, exposing and testing the MCP endpoint, and more.
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