How to inline methods using MethodImplAttribute in C#

The Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler is a component of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) in .NET that converts Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code into the native code that is executed by the computer. The JIT compiler compiles the CIL code at run time, hence the name....

Google releases Gemma 3n models for on-device AI

Google has released its Gemma 3n AI model, positioned as an advancement for on-device AI and bringing multimodal capabilities and higher performance to edge devices. Previewed in May, Gemma 3n is multimodal by design, with native support for image, audio, video, and...

Get started with Google Agent Development Kit

A common use case in generative AI is developing an agent, which is a system users interact with in plain language to accomplish a given task. Creating AI agents can require a lot of heavy lifting, even when you’re leveraging an existing commercial model. Google...

The ultimate software engineering abstraction

Really big changes don’t happen in the programming world very often. I’ve been lucky to be around long enough to see a couple of them. And we are all lucky enough to be seeing one today. I remember well the heady days in the mid-1990s when rapid application...