Jason Haley

Ramblings from an Independent Consultant

Boston Agent Camp

Saturday was Agent Camp at the NERD in Cambridge - an all day, in person event. We had a good turn out for the room size we had - around 60 people. Big thanks to Bill Wilder who did all the heavy lifting on the organizing Juan Pablo Garcia Gonzalez gave an awesome talk on the Memory Pointer Pattern for Token-Bounded Agents Daymark for the food and freebies! I presented “Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework” and a couple of labs. This was the most python aware group we’ve had yet at our events - everyone knew how to get things started with no help from us! Agent Harness in Agent Framework The majority of the first lab was really about using Agent Framework and the second was about seeing the usage of the agent harness in a more real world type of application …

Posted by Jason on Monday, June 15, 2026

Agentic RAG Chronicles

Introducing: The Agentic RAG Chronicles (Blog Series) Last year I chronicled several RAG Demos with the idea I would have a documented place to return to when I was looking for specify RAG features. Having those demos documented and all the reference links in one location really was useful for me - so I am going to do the same thing this year, but with Agentic RAG components. Agentic RAG Last year when I was learning RAG, that technique became known as Standard RAG or Semantic RAG. At its core, it’s a system that uses semantic search—understanding meaning rather than just matching keywords—to find relevant information, then feeds that information to an LLM to answer a user’s question. When you first build one of these systems, the results feel almost magical. But it …

Posted by Jason on Sunday, October 19, 2025

2025 Agent Con Boston

Saturday we hosted our local Global AI Community’s AgentCon conference and had over 150 attendees! It was a full day of sessions and workshops. I spent most of the day in the workshop room, which were really well attended - we could have used a room twice the size. I didn’t get to attend to the sessions in the main room - that room was also pretty full: We ended with a panel discussion on Responsible AI: We’re already looking forward to the next event—thank you to everyone who joined us and made the day a success! If you have a comment, please message me @haleyjason on twitter/X. Published 9/29/2025

Posted by Jason on Saturday, September 27, 2025

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Jason is an experienced developer and solutions architect focused on helping companies provide real business value with custom software development using the Microsoft stack of technologies. This includes C#, .NET, Azure and AI services. In 2024, Jason was awarded a Microsoft MVP in AI - highlighting his latest focus on AI and specifically Generative AI technologies in real world business applications. The prior seven years, he was a Microsoft Azure MVP.

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