I wanted to deploy my demonstration program, a local console application, to Foundry. The short answer is that without a front end (e.g. a Blazer Application) it made sense only to host the agents (and the tool) on Foundry, and leave the actual application on my local machine.

To do this, I consulted with Bruno Capuano and Jon Galloway, both of Microsoft. The result is a video that you can find here: Microsoft Agent Framework and Foundry Part 2.

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

Microsoft News

• Test what you ship: MSTest and Native AOT
• Stop alt-tabbing into the wrong Visual Studio – Visual Studio Blog
• Today I will… review GitHub PRs – Visual Studio Blog

Videos

• Porting my F# Web App to Rust in 2 Hours with AI
• .NET MAUI Community Standup: Inspect, Record, Create: .NET MAUI Meets GitHub Copilot Canvas
• Meet Your Claw: A Harness in Three Lines of C#

Blogs

• Fantomas: Doctor doctor please | blog.nojaf.com
• The pain of serializing unions and closed class hierarchies with System.Text.Json – Andrew Lock

Highlighted projects

• B2R2-org/B2R2: B2R2 is a fully managed binary analysis framework written in F#. It provides a rich set of algorithms, functions, and tools for reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary-level inspection.
• akhansari/FSharp.OpenApi: F# Wrapper for OpenAPI.NET
• MangelMaxime/Nacara – A documentation engine for F#, where the site is an F# program.
• AngelMunoz/Mibo.Fable – The Mibo game simulation core, compiled to JavaScript/TypeScript-friendly output with Fable.

New Releases

• Mibo 5.0.0
• SageFs 0.6.477
• Pulsar.Client 3.19.0
• Fable 5.16.0
• FSharp.Formatting 22.2.0
• FsLexYacc 12.0.0
• fsharp-analyzers 0.38.0
• Prime 11.5.3
• fsdocs-tool 22.2.0
• SqlHydra.Query 4.1.1
• FSharp.OpenApi 0.8.0
• FSharp.Analyzers.SDK 0.38.0
• Fable.Python 5.5.0
• FSharp.HotChocolate 1.0.3
• Oxpecker.ViewEngine 2.1.0
• Feliz.DaisyUI 5.4.0
• telplin 0.17.0
• Oxpecker.Htmx 4.0.0
• FsLangMcp 0.17.0
• FsLiveDocs 0.5.0
• FSharp.Refactor.Analyzers 0.8.2
• Fantomas 8.0.0-beta-001

That’s all for now. Have a great week.

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Here’s Astra’s imagination of a future Zürich, generated by letting it control Blender and ElevenLabs with only a short one-shot prompt to go by:

Some other things Astra did today:

• It autonomously executed my complete August accounting, looking for documents in my email and drive and operating the accounting software in my browser.

• Created a beautiful and fun to play version of Tetris (which I am now slightly addicted to).

• Optimised the iOS version of Flashboard, my personal inbox-0-all-the-things task management app, to make it load and refresh much faster.

• Redesigned my homepage (I had to choose from dozens of gorgeous designs – it wasn’t easy).

Even more than all other current frontier models, Astra truly feels like a step change – intuitive, knowledgeable, opinionated. It’s fast and precise, and operates on my computer and in my browser at superhuman speed and confidence.

Feel the AGI 🖖

I’ve been a programmer for decades, but in the last few months I haven’t written a single line of code, even while creating more software than I ever have before. How? I moved to “factory mode”. I am now the manager of teams of agents that take my specs and directions and turn them into software. They are better at it than I ever could be.

Even more than I am impressed with the change for programmers like me, I am excited by the possibilities for everyone – creatives, business people, hobbyists, … anyone with great ideas – to establish their own factory and start building their own vision of the future.

That’s why I am teaming up with to teach the course Build Your Agentic Software Factory.

Through live workshops, Q&A sessions, an online community, and lots of materials and resources, we want to get as many of you running your own agentic factory and building the future. Join us!

b.t.w the course is on offer for VERY EARLY BIRDs at a massive ($200) discount through the end of the week.

Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers

Across the board, Astra has more attention to detail, better understanding of the user's prompt, and can build more sophisticated outputs. In particular, it excels at building 3D models. I've seen it make incredible renderings of gardens, shipyards, animals, cityscapes, even Dyson spheres.

Astra really does believe in putting a red neckerchief on a pelican riding a bicycle.

Via Hacker News comment

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