Beyond AI Agents: Is This the Future of Operating Systems?

What if every application on your computer could explain how it works, discover other applications, and collaborate with them to get things done? In this session, I sit down with Maxim Khailo to explore Abject and the idea of Abject-Oriented Programming. Inspired by Alan Kay, Smalltalk, and the actor model, Max is building a system where objects communicate through messages and expose an “ask” handler that lets you ask them questions in plain language. LLMs help when needed, while ordinary messages remain deterministic. Max walks us through a live demo, including a chat that discovers how to interact with a virtual fish tank and feeds the fish. We explore shared workspaces, peer-to-peer communication, local AI, and his vision of “private software”: applications people create to solve their own problems. We also discuss why coding agents can struggle with original ideas, why engineering still matters, and why people should retain control over their software and computing. Explore Abject: Website: https://abject.world/ Source code: https://github.com/mempko/abject Max website and socials: https://mempko.com/ https://github.com/mempko https://x.com/MaximKhailo CHAPTERS 00:00 Introducing Abject and Maxim Khailo 02:20 Alan Kay, Smalltalk, and messaging 07:22 Why build Abject? 09:19 The “ask” handler 12:06 What does “Abject” mean? 15:00 Objects communicating across machines 17:00 Biology and peer-to-peer design 19:00 Live demo: Inside Abject 21:00 Asking objects how they work 23:00 Workspaces, chat, and agents 25:00 Discovery and collaboration 27:00 Shared workspaces and the fish-tank demo 29:00 Inspecting LLM calls and costs 31:00 Web browsing, skills, and MCP 32:30 Max’s vision for personal computing 36:00 The age of private software 41:13 Exploring the open-source project 42:34 Building Abject with Abject 46:14 Why software engineering still matters 48:28 Decentralization and software freedom 52:53 What comes next 54:23 Running with local LLMs offline 54:44 Closing thoughts What would you build if your applications could discover each other and work together? Let us know in the comments. Subscribe for more conversations with the people building the future of technology. #Abject #AI #OpenSource

Working With Your Data, Safely: Files, Approvals and Memory

So far the agent can talk about markets but cannot touch anything of yours, and nothing stops it doing something it should not. This episode fixes both. We give it file access so it reads a real portfolio.csv and writes its reports back to disk, then put a place_trade tool behind an explicit human approval. Approving every single read gets old fast, so we add auto-approval rules for the safe calls and one custom rule that clears small trades on its own. We finish with durable memory in two forms, the files the agent curates itself and the facts Foundry extracts automatically, and watch both survive a restart. 📌 This event is part of a series. Learn more here: https://aka.ms/FMTA/series 🔗 Learn more by exploring the resource: https://aka.ms/AgentHarness #MicrosoftReactor #LearnConnectBuild [eventID:27518]

.NET Unboxed: .NET 11 Release Candidate 1!!

Join the team showing off their favorite features in .NET 11 in this release party for .NET 11 RC 1!! ⌚ Chapters: 00:00 Countdown 02:27 Welcome to Unboxing .NET 11 RC1 03:15 Blog and Release Notes 03:50 C# 15 updates 04:05 Demo - Unions 12:54 ASP.NET Core & Blazor .NET 11 themes 14:00 Demo - Validation improvements 19:40 Demo - Building Distributed applications 24:43 Demo - Building Agentic Web apps 32:52 More ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 11 34:20 .NET MAUI updates 35:14 CoreCLR 36:45 MAUI DevFlow 40:00 Badges on tab bars 42:12 Dark theme 43:20 Launch sites 44:15 DevFlow 44:46 Recap 48:00 .NET CLI improvements - ahead of time compilation 51:20 Containerization improvements 53:05 MS Build Server: no-op builds 55:28 Multithreaded mode 59:12 Recap 59:50 New Numeric APIs in .NET 11 01:00:34 Numeric CSV: parse first, then advance 01:02:17 Demo - Parsing 01:05:45 Choose a decimal type that fits your data 01:09:00 Demo - decimal types 01:12:10 Recap 01:13:20 C# DevKit updates 01:15:21 Demo 01:23:10 Cache Files improvements 01:25:48 C# Doctor 01:28:08 Recap 01:30:40 .NET Conf 2026 - November 10-13 https://www.dotnetconf.net/ 01:31:31 Wrap 🔗 Links: Blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-11-rc-1/ Repo: https://github.com/dotnet/core/tree/main/release-notes/11.0 Roadmap: https://aka.ms/aspnet/roadmap 🎙️ Featuring: Jon Galloway, Mads Torgersen, Daniel Roth, Gerald Versluis, Chet Husk, Tanner Gooding, Drew Noakes, Emanuel Fernandez Dell'Oca #dotnet #dotnet11 #dotnetdeveloper

The C# const trap 🪤 #csharp #dotnet

Stop using C# const for public library values. Using const in your libraries causes versioning headaches because values are in-lined at compile time. If you update a constant, your dependent applications won't see the change until they are recompiled. Switch to static readonly to ensure your runtime behavior stays consistent and avoids these common bugs. 🚀 FEEDBACK Don't forget to comment, like, hype and subscribe. I really value your feedback! 💧 MORE .NET TIPS & LINKS? Subscribed to the .NET Drip email newsletter. Weekly .NET tips and hand-curated links to help you level up your skills. https://dotnetdrip.com 💬 JOIN US MEMBERSHIP: https://bbb.dev/ytjoin DISCORD: https://bbb.dev/discord TWITCH: https://bbb.dev/twitch #csharp #dotnet

When was the last time you ran /compact yourself? #claudecode

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