At this year’s PSConfEU, Jeffrey Snover — the creator of PowerShell — gave a session called Navigating the AI Revolution. One idea stuck with me: engineering is how we take something that isn’t perfect yet and make it useful anyway. With AI specifically, the answer isn’t to trust it blindly — it’s to build verification layers around it. Validate the output. Trust, but verify.

That hit a nerve, because if I’m honest I’m a bit of a perfectionist and a bit of a control-freak. AI velocity is real and I want it — but handing work to something that’s confidently wrong sometimes goes against every instinct I have. So I’ve been trying to let the reins go a little, and the thing that makes that bearable is the same thing that’s always made me comfortable shipping code: tests. This post is about one testing layer in particular — Playwright MCP — and how it lets me let go without flying blind.

Microsoft just announced the public preview of the Azure Resource Manager MCP Server — a remote, hosted MCP server that lets AI agents talk to Azure infrastructure through ARM. At this year’s MVP Summit I got proper hands-on time with this: a lab session walking through it, followed by preview access on my own tenant so I could poke at it with real resources for a while. Now everyone else gets to do the same.

Bit of a departure from the usual PowerShell and Azure content — Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.7, and while this isn’t directly PowerShell-related, AI is changing how a lot of us work. It’s something I plan to dive into more on this blog going forward.

Microsoft is hosting the first ever Azure Infra Summit — a free, online event aimed squarely at the people who build, run, and optimize Azure infrastructure day in, day out.

With the release of PowerShell 7.6 comes an updated version of PSResourceGet — 1.2.0. And if you haven’t made the switch from PowerShellGet yet, now is a great time.

PowerShell 7.6 has officially been released as the new Long-Term Support (LTS) version, and it’s built on .NET 10.