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Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich on AI, engineering craft, cloud, career growth, and whatever technical rabbit hole is worth following this week.
Beyond the Vibes: How Models Learn and Stitch Panoramas
April 8, 2026
Scott and Mark unpack how AI systems behave beneath the surface, how incentives and training shape model behavior, and why even something as visual as panorama stitching turns into a hard engineering problem at the edges.
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