AI DevOps Podcast

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Today I've have Gaurav Seth with us — he's a product executive at Microsoft working on fundamentally redefining how software gets built and scaled. He's been bringing agentic AI into every stage of the develop‑deploy‑operate cycle, both for Microsoft's internal engineering teams and for developers building on the platform. He's hands-on building AI agents into GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio, working on evaluation systems that improve model quality, and shaping core platforms that power Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows, Xbox, and LinkedIn.
Right now, he's focused on some of the hardest problems in the industry — what it looks like to move from manual to AI-driven development, how to measure and improve agent performance at scale, how to make massive codebases understandable to LLMs, and what the future of developer workflows looks like in an agent-first world. Before this, he helped lead some major shifts — from Edge's move to Chromium, to scaling TypeScript into one of the most widely used languages in the world, to evolving Visual Studio's business model and growing .NET in a crowded market. He operates end-to-end — from product strategy and engineering to go-to-market, partnerships, and enterprise adoption — and has a unique ability to connect deep technical innovation with real-world impact. 
Mentioned in this Episode
LinkedIn
X / Twitter 
.NET Blog (author page) 
Foundry Local: Onyx w/ Ollama 
VSCode Agent Pane 
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Stephen Cleary is a software developer, author, and independent consultant with deep expertise in asynchronous and concurrent programming in .NET. He is the author of "Concurrency in C# Cookbook" (O'Reilly, 2nd edition), the definitive practical reference on async, parallel, reactive, and multithreaded programming in C#. Stephen is one of the top-ranked users on Stack Overflow, widely recognized for his authoritative answers on async/await, and he has published extensively on the subject through MSDN Magazine, conference talks, and his long-running blog. His most recent blog post, "Debug Dumps in Visual Studio," was published in December 2025 and continues his tradition of sharing hard-won, practical knowledge with the .NET community.
Website: https://stephencleary.com 
Blog: https://blog.stephencleary.com
Book: https://stephencleary.com/book/
GitHub: https://github.com/StephenCleary
Twitter/X: https://x.com/astevecleary
Github - Comparers
Nuget - Nito Comparers 

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Tim Corey is an nine-time Microsoft MVP, a software developer with more than 30 years of experience, and one of the most recognized online educators in the .NET ecosystem. DevForge at IAmTimCorey.com -- has helped millions of developers learn to think and code like professionals. He is the author of Getting Started with C#: A Practical Guide, the creator of the popular C# Mastercourse, and the host of the DevQuestions podcast, now in its seventh season. Tim learned software development the hard way so his students don't have to -- and he is a returning guest, having joined us previously on Episode 241.
Previous appearance(s) on the Azure DevOps Podcast:
Episode 241: Tim Corey: Learning Programming (Apr 17, 2023) 
Website: https://www.iamtimcorey.com/
Blog: https://blog.iamtimcorey.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamtimcorey/
Twitter / X: https://x.com/IAmTimCorey
GitHub: https://github.com/TimCorey
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@IAmTimCorey
Podcast: https://iamtimcorey.buzzsprout.com/

Recent projects / posts: - Course: Upgrading to .NET 10 From Start to Finish https://www.iamtimcorey.com/courses/upgrading-to-dotnet-10/
- Course: C# Mastercourse https://www.iamtimcorey.com/courses/csharp-mastercourse/
- Game Development Mastercourse (preorder) https://gamedevelopmentmastercourse.com/
- Blog: "Does Vibe Coding Have A Place In Software Development?" (May 2025)
- Blog: "What Microsoft Choosing Go over C# Can Teach Us" (Apr 2025)
- Blog: "Can AI Do a Developer's Job?" (Mar 2025)
- DevQuestions Podcast Ep. 299: "Why is the job market slowing down?" (Mar 5, 2026)

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Chet Husk is a Product Manager on the .NET Tools team at Microsoft, where he leads the .NET SDK, MSBuild, Template Engine, and Install Scripts teams -- shaping how millions of .NET developers build, publish, and containerize their applications. Before joining Microsoft in 2021, Chet was deeply embedded in the F# open-source community, serving on the F# Software Foundation Board and co-maintaining Ionide, the popular F# extension for VS Code. At Microsoft, he drove the built-in container publishing support that lets developers create container images with just "dotnet publish" -- no Dockerfile required -- and recently shipped SLNX, the new XML-based solution file format for the .NET CLI. He is also exploring the intersection of AI and build tooling with an open-source MCP server that lets AI assistants analyze MSBuild binary logs.
Mentioned in this Episode
GitHub
LinkedIn
.NET Blog
Recent projects / posts Blog:

"Introducing support for SLNX, a new, simpler solution file format in the .NET CLI" (Mar 2025, .NET Blog) 
mcp-binlog-tool: MCP server for AI-assisted MSBuild binary log analysis 
Blog: "Announcing built-in container support for the .NET SDK" (.NET Blog)
.NET Conf 2023 talk: ".NET Containers advancements in .NET 8" 
.NET Conf 2022 Keynote presenter 

SLNGEN .NET Tool /dotnet/skills
GitHub repo structed nuget package - devlooped

EBNF Grammar (Extended Backus–Naur Form)
https://msbuildlog.com/
https://github.com/devlooped/StructId

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Pierce Boggan is the PM Lead for Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot at Microsoft, where he guides the product direction of the world's most popular code editor as it evolves into an AI-native development platform. He joined Microsoft through the Xamarin acquisition more than a decade ago and has worked across mobile tools, Visual Studio, and the Teams Toolkit before taking the helm of the VS Code team in late 2024. Pierce co-hosts the VS Code Insiders Podcast, presented in the GitHub Universe 2025 keynote, and recently helped his team make the historic shift from monthly to weekly releases -- powered by AI. He is also the creator of Primer, an open-source CLI that prepares codebases for AI-assisted development.
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Mentioned in This Episode
Website 
Twitter / X 
GitHub
Podcast 
Primer
Recent projects / posts:
Agent HQ in VS Code announced (Dec 2025) -- unified view for managing local, background, and cloud AI agents
GitHub Universe 2025 keynote presenter (Nov 2025)
VS Code Insiders Podcast: "VS Code -- 2025 Wrapped" (Dec 2025)
Primer CLI -- prepares repos for AI-assisted development (423 stars)
nano-banana-mcp -- MCP server enabling image creation in GitHub Copilot
VS Code team moved from monthly to weekly releases (Mar 2026 interview) 

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