Matt Roberts
Technology Leader · Workspace Geek · AI Nerd
Writing about the future while living in it
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Building my first AI-powered app: what I learned as a non-ML developer
I built this website using Next.js, AWS, and Claude. I'm not a developer by trade. Here's an honest account of what that process was like and what surprised me.
M365 Copilot a year on: admin reality vs the sales pitch
Microsoft 365 Copilot went GA in November 2023. We're now well past the initial excitement. Here's an honest account of what it's actually like to deploy and manage.
Claude 3.7 and the rise of agentic AI — this is the inflection point
Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet in February 2025 with extended thinking mode. Combined with the MCP protocol, something important just shifted.
AI Perspectives
all →The model running your Copilot demo might not be OpenAI
Anthropic's Claude is now the default model inside Microsoft 365 Copilot for Excel and PowerPoint. The product you've been selling as Microsoft AI includes a model from a company that isn't Microsoft. The channel pitch needs updating.
SpaceX goes public. The pitch isn't what you think.
SpaceX hit the Nasdaq today as the largest IPO in history. You'd be forgiven for thinking it's a rocket company. A significant chunk of the investment case is actually about building AI data centres in space. Yes, in space.
Microsoft and NVIDIA just bet the AI PC future on RTX Spark
At Microsoft Build last week, Microsoft and NVIDIA announced RTX Spark: a superchip with 128GB of unified memory and a petaflop of on-device AI compute. Worth paying attention to, even if you're not in the market for new hardware right now.
Microsoft 365 & IT
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Robopack, Winget, PSADT — how I think about app packaging for Intune now
App packaging for Intune has always been a time sink. Robopack changes that calculation significantly. Here's how I'm thinking about the options in mid-2025.
M365 Copilot a year on: admin reality vs the sales pitch
Microsoft 365 Copilot went GA in November 2023. We're now well past the initial excitement. Here's an honest account of what it's actually like to deploy and manage.
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The model running your Copilot demo might not be OpenAI
Anthropic's Claude is now the default model inside Microsoft 365 Copilot for Excel and PowerPoint. The product you've been selling as Microsoft AI includes a model from a company that isn't Microsoft. The channel pitch needs updating.
SpaceX goes public. The pitch isn't what you think.
SpaceX hit the Nasdaq today as the largest IPO in history. You'd be forgiven for thinking it's a rocket company. A significant chunk of the investment case is actually about building AI data centres in space. Yes, in space.
Microsoft and NVIDIA just bet the AI PC future on RTX Spark
At Microsoft Build last week, Microsoft and NVIDIA announced RTX Spark: a superchip with 128GB of unified memory and a petaflop of on-device AI compute. Worth paying attention to, even if you're not in the market for new hardware right now.
Robopack, Winget, PSADT — how I think about app packaging for Intune now
App packaging for Intune has always been a time sink. Robopack changes that calculation significantly. Here's how I'm thinking about the options in mid-2025.
Building my first AI-powered app: what I learned as a non-ML developer
I built this website using Next.js, AWS, and Claude. I'm not a developer by trade. Here's an honest account of what that process was like and what surprised me.
M365 Copilot a year on: admin reality vs the sales pitch
Microsoft 365 Copilot went GA in November 2023. We're now well past the initial excitement. Here's an honest account of what it's actually like to deploy and manage.
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