The tech industry worships youth—but at what cost? I joined @buckleyplanet.bsky.social on CollabTalk to discuss how age bias is wrecking code quality, mentorship, and careers. If you're an engineer, you need to hear this. Prepare now, not later. 🎙️👇
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CollabTalk Podcast: Veteran Engineers Aren’t Done Yet – They’re Just Getting Started
In this month’s CollabTalk Podcast episode, David McCarter discusses how the tech industry’s focus on youth harms code quality and mentorship, sidelining veteran engineers. He emphasize…
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September 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
The tech industry worships youth—but at what cost? I joined @buckleyplanet.bsky.social on CollabTalk to discuss how age bias is wrecking code quality, mentorship, and careers. If you're an engineer, you need to hear this. Prepare now, not later. 🎙️👇
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AI: hype, fear, opportunity… or all three?
I had a great conversation with Christian Buckley about what AI really means for software engineers and everyday life.
If you're curious where this is all going, check out the podcast.
Listen here: dotnettips.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/c...
#MVPBuzz
I had a great conversation with Christian Buckley about what AI really means for software engineers and everyday life.
If you're curious where this is all going, check out the podcast.
Listen here: dotnettips.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/c...
#MVPBuzz
CollabTalk Podcast: Episode 183 with David McCarter
In a recent podcast, Christian Buckley and I discussed the dual nature of AI, sparking excitement and anxiety among software engineers. We explored its implications for the future of the profession…
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September 11, 2026 at 3:36 PM
AI: hype, fear, opportunity… or all three?
I had a great conversation with Christian Buckley about what AI really means for software engineers and everyday life.
If you're curious where this is all going, check out the podcast.
Listen here: dotnettips.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/c...
#MVPBuzz
I had a great conversation with Christian Buckley about what AI really means for software engineers and everyday life.
If you're curious where this is all going, check out the podcast.
Listen here: dotnettips.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/c...
#MVPBuzz
A7: I think keeping it simple and not trying to duplicate the capabilities of other agent technologies in Microsoft 365 will help. Though there should be an upgrade path so that people can move to more complex solutions when needed. #CollabTalk
March 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A7: I think keeping it simple and not trying to duplicate the capabilities of other agent technologies in Microsoft 365 will help. Though there should be an upgrade path so that people can move to more complex solutions when needed. #CollabTalk
A6: I think having editable built-in agents will have a big impact on adoption. I do worry about the control and agent sprawl. #CollabTalk
March 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A6: I think having editable built-in agents will have a big impact on adoption. I do worry about the control and agent sprawl. #CollabTalk
A5: I think the fact that they are not as powerful and configurable as their Copilot Studio cousins is a big limitation. However, that is also their benefit as they are less complicated and do one thing well. Use in HR, Sales, Finance and IT #CollabTalk
March 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A5: I think the fact that they are not as powerful and configurable as their Copilot Studio cousins is a big limitation. However, that is also their benefit as they are less complicated and do one thing well. Use in HR, Sales, Finance and IT #CollabTalk
A2: Agents should serve a particular focus like an App on a phone. Ensure you do not mix too many different data types that are for different purposes in your libraries. Ideally just the one purpose. #CollabTalk
March 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A2: Agents should serve a particular focus like an App on a phone. Ensure you do not mix too many different data types that are for different purposes in your libraries. Ideally just the one purpose. #CollabTalk
A1: The generation of them is straight-forward and anyone can create them provided they have permission and licenses. They are a much lower bar to entry. They appear in SharePoint and easy to switch between agents through SharePoint. #CollabTalk
March 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A1: The generation of them is straight-forward and anyone can create them provided they have permission and licenses. They are a much lower bar to entry. They appear in SharePoint and easy to switch between agents through SharePoint. #CollabTalk
Thanks @buckleyplanet.bsky.social for organising. That was a lot of fun. Some thought-provoking and great points were made. #CollabTalk
February 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Thanks @buckleyplanet.bsky.social for organising. That was a lot of fun. Some thought-provoking and great points were made. #CollabTalk
A7: Net promoter scores for the environment before and after the migration. Using metrics from helpdesk to understand if people who don’t fill in surveys are able to use the new platform. #CollabTalk
February 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A7: Net promoter scores for the environment before and after the migration. Using metrics from helpdesk to understand if people who don’t fill in surveys are able to use the new platform. #CollabTalk
A6: Ensuring good communication to explain why, when and what is going to happen. Ensure that training provided, training resources available in different formats to support different types of learning.
Ensure there's a Communication plan to build excitement & is thought through. #CollabTalk
Ensure there's a Communication plan to build excitement & is thought through. #CollabTalk
February 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A6: Ensuring good communication to explain why, when and what is going to happen. Ensure that training provided, training resources available in different formats to support different types of learning.
Ensure there's a Communication plan to build excitement & is thought through. #CollabTalk
Ensure there's a Communication plan to build excitement & is thought through. #CollabTalk
A5: Senior management team, Marketing and Internal comms to support communication. Human Resources because they have so much content that is used by other parts of the business. Departments with Core Business Process ownership #CollabTalk
February 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A5: Senior management team, Marketing and Internal comms to support communication. Human Resources because they have so much content that is used by other parts of the business. Departments with Core Business Process ownership #CollabTalk
A4: Moving files from Files shares / SharePoint on-prem to Online often seem much quicker and easier to deliver with third-party tools. They can help you get yourself out of trouble too.
#CollabTalk
#CollabTalk
February 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A4: Moving files from Files shares / SharePoint on-prem to Online often seem much quicker and easier to deliver with third-party tools. They can help you get yourself out of trouble too.
#CollabTalk
#CollabTalk
A3: One common challenge is taking SharePoint sites that have been customised and provide functionality that cannot be migrated to Online. e.g. features don’t exist, going out of support. e.g. InfoPath forms. Planning & understanding of what is being migrate key to avoid these issues. #CollabTalk
February 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A3: One common challenge is taking SharePoint sites that have been customised and provide functionality that cannot be migrated to Online. e.g. features don’t exist, going out of support. e.g. InfoPath forms. Planning & understanding of what is being migrate key to avoid these issues. #CollabTalk
A1: Having a look at the content that is going to be migrated, looking at how it currently is structured and how it will be structured. Using this time to plan, where will things go? Cleaning up content that is old so that we don’t move the rubbish into the new environment. #CollabTalk
February 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A1: Having a look at the content that is going to be migrated, looking at how it currently is structured and how it will be structured. Using this time to plan, where will things go? Cleaning up content that is old so that we don’t move the rubbish into the new environment. #CollabTalk
Fascinating. Mind boggling. Overwhelming. Exciting. Terrifying. All at once. #Collabtalk A7
January 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Fascinating. Mind boggling. Overwhelming. Exciting. Terrifying. All at once. #Collabtalk A7
...the world's second leading economy announces a more powerful AI that is already developed (or near release) and it is going to be free and widely available. Human/economic disruptions taking place at a pace incongruent to technology disruptions… #collabtalk A7
January 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
...the world's second leading economy announces a more powerful AI that is already developed (or near release) and it is going to be free and widely available. Human/economic disruptions taking place at a pace incongruent to technology disruptions… #collabtalk A7
A7 - #Collabtalk - Seeing years into a technology that advances and changes so rapidly is impossible to say. One day, the world's leading economy announces a major multi-hundred billion dollar investment in AI (with cooperation from the world's leading AI tech companies) and the next day...
January 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A7 - #Collabtalk - Seeing years into a technology that advances and changes so rapidly is impossible to say. One day, the world's leading economy announces a major multi-hundred billion dollar investment in AI (with cooperation from the world's leading AI tech companies) and the next day...
A6 - #Collabtalk - Critical thinking about the products, content, and services provided by non-human actors is going to be key. Along with that, new attention (and intention) to the work being done by, for, and with humans will be increasingly valuable.
January 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A6 - #Collabtalk - Critical thinking about the products, content, and services provided by non-human actors is going to be key. Along with that, new attention (and intention) to the work being done by, for, and with humans will be increasingly valuable.
Leading by example is always key to setting the tone and expectation levels. The more leaders can demonstrate and show how technologies can help them, the less time they have to spend explicitly "giving orders" about those topics. #Collabtalk A5
January 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Leading by example is always key to setting the tone and expectation levels. The more leaders can demonstrate and show how technologies can help them, the less time they have to spend explicitly "giving orders" about those topics. #Collabtalk A5
A5 - #Collabtalk - HUGE. Impossible to adopt successfully of the culture can't support it. Culture has a thousand factors and elements, but Leadership can control or heavily influence most of those factors.
January 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A5 - #Collabtalk - HUGE. Impossible to adopt successfully of the culture can't support it. Culture has a thousand factors and elements, but Leadership can control or heavily influence most of those factors.
A4 - #Collabtalk - Copilot can be faster to an answer or content product. But is that answer or content product more valuable? If so, is the value gained by the consumer or the creator (prompter)? Will the creator be better on a future attempt? Will the impact to the consumer be better in future?
January 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A4 - #Collabtalk - Copilot can be faster to an answer or content product. But is that answer or content product more valuable? If so, is the value gained by the consumer or the creator (prompter)? Will the creator be better on a future attempt? Will the impact to the consumer be better in future?
That student work may be technically correct, but not necessarily learned and part of their own knowledge. #CollabTalk A4
January 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
That student work may be technically correct, but not necessarily learned and part of their own knowledge. #CollabTalk A4
Grades and pass rates may or may not have increased. But those students that do finish may not have deeply learned the materials as they use AI to summarize the summaries that the instructors give them, or to create regurgitated content for assignments. #Collabtalk A4
January 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Grades and pass rates may or may not have increased. But those students that do finish may not have deeply learned the materials as they use AI to summarize the summaries that the instructors give them, or to create regurgitated content for assignments. #Collabtalk A4
A4 - #Collabtalk - In EDU, in the classroom, instructors use Copilot and other AIs for materials generation (generate quizzes, study guide summaries, lesson plans, and more), but the BETTER OUTCOMES (smarter and more engaged students) may not be known precisely.
January 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
A4 - #Collabtalk - In EDU, in the classroom, instructors use Copilot and other AIs for materials generation (generate quizzes, study guide summaries, lesson plans, and more), but the BETTER OUTCOMES (smarter and more engaged students) may not be known precisely.
Among those culture issues, the expectations of what Copilot can or should do (and what it can't or shouldn't do) have to be known and accepted and injected into the Org's DNA. Too much reliance on Copilot or mistrust or other general Luddite tendencies are all possible barriers. #Collabtalk A3
January 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Among those culture issues, the expectations of what Copilot can or should do (and what it can't or shouldn't do) have to be known and accepted and injected into the Org's DNA. Too much reliance on Copilot or mistrust or other general Luddite tendencies are all possible barriers. #Collabtalk A3