Arafat Tehsin Blog

Prompt caching can make long AI sessions faster and cheaper, but most people never see it working.

Group Chat gave us a room.

Token usage can explain what AI costs.

Agent Harness is not another agent buzzword.

Concurrent orchestration gave you parallel opinions.

Enterprise AI should not add another maze of assistants.

Your sequential pipeline works beautifully but it's slow.

A practical deep-dive into Skills in Microsoft Agent Framework: progressive disclosure, native skill invocation, and a full .NET 10 + React command-center demo for supply-chain disruption triage.

Agents are actors.

Three sentiment analysis engines in one .NET library: VADER for speed, TinyBERT for accuracy, DistilBERT for 104 languages.

Importance of orchestration and the five fundamental shapes that make multi-agent systems predictable enough to ship.

Learn how to combine Microsoft Agent Framework's structured agent orchestration with OpenAI ChatKit's polished chat UI for production-quality AI experiences featuring streaming, widgets and file uploads.

Guardrails are the roadmap.

AI shines on the happy path and trust is earned on the edge cases.

If you’ve been building with LLMs for more than a few weeks, you've probably discovered there's a big gap between a demo that impresses in a meeting and a system that quietly runs every day in production.

Across dozens of client conversations this year, I’ve noticed a pattern: everyone has internalised the fail‑fast strategy yet only a handful of organisations actually practice it.

When you start building AI agents , it doesn’t take long before you hit a wall and ask yourself, “ How do I get my agents to talk to each other without reinventing the wheel every time?

Last month, after giving a talk at UTS Sydney, Dr.

The first instalment in this series celebrated the promise of the open agentic web, an internet where autonomous software workers cooperate across organisational and technical borders.

This weekend, C-suite executives and innovation leaders are digesting the twin signals sent from Microsoft Build in Seattle and Google I/O in Mountain View, where both stages unveiled the same bold future: the Open Agent

Throughout the history, human progress has been marked by our ability to delegate.

Happy new year.

Imagine running a restaurant.

In our previous post , we delved into the fascinating world of local Retrieval-Augmented Generation RAG using Microsoft’s Phi-3 and the Semantic Kernel framework.

It's true that not every challenge can be distilled into a straightforward solution.

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About 10 months March, 2023 ago, I got a mention in a tweet from one of my good friends and our local community leader, Simon Waight .

The world is changing rapidly and so are the applications that we use every day at our workplace, home, gym, playground and the likes.

In today’s digital age, it is not easy for any business to work without the application of artificial intelligence AI .

Last week I received an email from the Microsoft Reactor team informing me that I had 360 RSVPs on the day of my talk .

When we’re kids, we explore our interests and abilities, adopting what we like and leaving what we don’t.

As you know, Microsoft's AI Builder now supports prebuilt Azure OpenAI models, allowing users to easily integrate powerful AI capabilities into their applications and processes without the need for any coding or data sci

Personalization in customer service is the practice of tailoring interactions with customers to their individual needs and preferences.

In today's digital age, it is not easy for any business to work without personalization.

In the last couple of years, Artificial Intelligence AI has shown tremendous growth opportunities.

When Power Virtual Agents were released, it was ensured that people who are closer to their customers can create bots for them.

I love the idea of Power Virtual Agents and it's enabling nature of creating the bots.

Few months back, I posted a small video clip on my LinkedIn to show how I used ML.NET w/ Azure , WinML & UWP to build a custom real-time object detection application.

Hacktoberfest is celebrated during the month of October when open-source software enthusiasts, beginners, and the developer community participate by contributing to open-source projects.

Last week my level of excitement just went up to another level when I got an access to OpenAI's API.

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If you run or a part of a business then you must have customers and a big number of those customers are driven by the customer service.

Back in 2016, Bot Framework v3 SDK used to have a famous feature called FormFlow.

Few months ago, during a discussion with one of my colleagues, I learnt that there are a lot of people who prefer listening to podcasts while driving back home, during their morning run or if they're heading back home on

Microsoft Build 2020 has been quite interesting; not because it was virtual but because I got a chance to represent the Australian Developer Community for Azure & we witnessed a new way of integration between Bot Fra

2020 has been unique, unusual and a different type of year.

Despite my diverse engagements with different Microsoft stacks ranging from Power Platform to Azure AI, I have always been a .NET C guy and because of that I have a special place in my heart for all things XAML and ML

Ever since Power Virtual Agents PVA have gone GA in December 2019, we've seen significant updates to this total No-Code visual authoring canvas.

In Oct 2019 at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft released Bot Framework Composer in public preview with handful of fantastic features to build some really cool bots not for production because of a preview .

Around 2.5 years back, one of the data centers in the Hospital of Cairns, Queensland, Australia caught up the fire because of the faulty battery.