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GitHub Copilot and tokens: how to keep using AI without burning your budget in three prompts (some personal lessons learned!)

⚠️ 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…

#English Post #GitHub Copilot

MAI-Image-2.5 support in ElBruno.Text2Image and the t2i 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! 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…

#Code Sample #English Post #Foundry #MAI-Image #NuGet #Text-To-Image

VS Code 1.122 Makes BYOK Easier

⚠️ 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…

#BYOK #English Post #GitHub Copilot #Visual Studio Code

Building Cross-Framework Agents with MAF, A2A, NVIDIA NeMo, and Aspire

⚠️ 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…

#A2A #Code Sample #English Post #MAF #Nemo Agent Toolkit #NVidia

GitHub Copilot CLI + SQUAD + GPT-5.5 BYOK: Better Engineering, Same Hard Truth

⚠️ 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…

#English Post #GitHub Copilot #GitHub Copilot CLI #GPT-5.5

GitHub Copilot CLI + GPT-5-mini BYOK: The Code Was Cheap, the Quality Gates Were Expensive

⚠️ 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.…

#BYOK #Code Sample #English Post #GitHub Copilot CLI #gpt-5-mini

From Pet Projects to +20 Open Source NuGet Packages, Thanks to GitHub Copilot 🚀

⚠️ 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…

#English Post #GitHub #NuGet #NuGet Packages

Running GitHub Copilot CLI Offline with Local Models: GPU Edition

⚠️ 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…

Running GitHub Copilot CLI Offline with Local Models: A CPU-Only Reality Check

⚠️ 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…

#CPU #English Post #GitHub Copilot CLI #VM

OllamaMonitor — Monitor Your Local Ollama Runtime from the Windows Tray

⚠️ 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…

#CLI #CLI Tools #English Post #NuGet #NuGet Packages #Ollama

AspireMonitor: Stop bouncing between your Aspire dashboard and your code.

⚠️ 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…

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#Aspire #CLI Tools #English Post #NuGet

🕛 ClockTray v1.0.0: Meet the CLI-Enabled Clock Tool for Windows

⚠️ 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…

#CLI #CLI Tools #ClockTray #English Post #NuGet #Windows

🚀 Big Update: GPT-Image Models + AI Agent Skills

⚠️ 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…

#CLI #CLI Tools #English Post #NuGet #NuGet Packages

🚀 Meet t2i — The ElBruno.Text2Image 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! 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…

#CLI #CLI Tools #English Post #NuGet #Skills #Text-To-Image #Tools

🗺️ AOT-Friendly DTO Mapping in .NET

⚠️ 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…

#AOT #AOT Mapper #Code Sample #Data Mapping #English Post #NuGet #NuGet Packages

🖼️ MAI-Image-2 Just Dropped — And .NET Support Is Already Here

⚠️ 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…

#Code Sample #English Post #Image Generation #NuGet #NuGet Packages

🚀 Bing Open-Sources New Embedding Models — Now Available in C# with LocalEmbeddings.Harrier

⚠️ 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…

#Code Sample #Embeddings #English Post #NuGet

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