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Field notes on building with AI on Azure — agents, privacy and the parts that only show up in production. Written from real work, not from the docs.

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I built a meeting note taker that uploads no audio

Every tool I tried wanted the recording — on their storage, under their retention policy. So recording, transcription and filing all happen on this Mac, and I had to be precise about the one thing that still leaves.

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What I don't let the model decide

A conversational booking agent over Azure OpenAI, an OTP server and Google Calendar. The model runs the conversation and picks the tool — and every value that has to be correct is computed in Python before the call goes out.

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