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You Can Just Build It Yourself
The DataGrid took me years. With an LLM it took days. Paid software that drove whole industries is now something a good developer can …
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Howdy, I’m Michael Stonis.
Michael Stonis is a software architect and 9x Microsoft MVP building innovative, high-performance applications for enterprises. With nearly two decades in .NET MAUI and C#, he’s now focused on AI-assisted development and emerging technologies — Agentic AI, the Model Context Protocol, and the future of cross-platform software.
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Copilot on a Credit Budget
GitHub Copilot now bills by the token instead of by the prompt. Here is what an agent session actually costs, how to work it out for any …
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Lights Out on Offshoring
Offshore development answered a real shortage for twenty years. Every tradeoff that made it painful just evaporated, and the firms selling …
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A Decade of Change
My tenth Microsoft MVP award, twenty years of .NET, and why I am not interested in picking a side in the AI fight.
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