Oh dear, so many meme phrases!

Hey, this is a free podcast however, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep-dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.

Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!

Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):

https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!).

Using VS Code (free and open source) along with the AI Toolkit extension allows you to play with several different AI models as well as local models - all from one user interface. Yes, you can run AI models locally! (okay, not the larger online ones!) and certainly the SLM (small language models) models like PHI-4 from Microsoft.

You can even get into building AI agents visually and generate actual code!

You don’t have to be a developer - this stuff is easy enough to use if you are curious about this sort of thing. If you want some guidance or examples of what you can do, just ping over a comment and I will be happy to help.

Hey, this is a free podcast however, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep-dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.

Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!

Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):

https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!).

What does all this mean?

Microsoft AI Extensions: An abstract set of classes to enable a c# .Net developer to talk to different AI models/platforms instead of specific individual frameworks. Also allows you to create and interact with MCP (model context protocol).

MCP: Model Context Protocol - soooo many resources out there now. I did an episode on MCP a few podcasts ago if you want to take a look/listen.

Azure AI Foundry Local: A bit like Ollama allowing you to run AI models locally :)