Week 8, year 2025

• What role does LLM reasoning play for software tasks? - Recent LLM models have provided “reasoning” capabilities. Birgitta Böckeler asks what role these play with coding tasks. She doesn't have an answer, but does have questions and thoughts - and has not found such capabilities worthwhile so far. [Martin Fowler]
• GenAI Patterns: Guardrails and RAG overview - Gen AI systems are gullible, and can easily be tricked into responding in ways that are contrary to an enterprise's policies or leak confidential information. Bharani Subramaniam and I describe how we can counter this by adding guardrails at the boundaries of the request/response flow. We also conclude our discussion of RAG with an overview of how all the RAG component patterns fit together. [Martin Fowler]
• AutoMapper 14.0 Released - I pushed out version 14.0 (!) of AutoMapper over the weekend: Release notes NuGet This release targets .NET 8 (up from .NET 6 from the previous release). It's mainly a bug fix release, with some quality-of-life improvements in configuration validation where we gather up all the possible validation [Jimmy Bogard]

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