https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive Aaron Foong is an AI & Data Solutions Engineer at AGOS Asia in Malaysia. He writes practical guides on Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, AI agents, and data engineering, drawn from client delivery work. en https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/the-tool-got-in-the-way https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/the-tool-got-in-the-way Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three weekends choosing an agentic platform for an automation that took one evening to build. https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/your-brain-is-the-bottleneck https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/your-brain-is-the-bottleneck Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI made producing things nearly free. Reading, judging and deciding still run at one human speed. https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/what-to-do-while-your-ai-is-thinking https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/what-to-do-while-your-ai-is-thinking Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nobody told us what we're supposed to do during the ninety seconds the machine spends reasoning. So we all made something up. https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/ai-ai-ai-ai https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/ai-ai-ai-ai Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Google counted how many times it said "AI" at its own keynote. Notes on hype fatigue, keeping up without drowning, and staying in your lane. https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/copilot-studio-pay-as-you-go https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/copilot-studio-pay-as-you-go Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A complete walkthrough from an empty tenant to a published Teams agent, without buying a single user license. https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/claude-power-bi-mcp https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/claude-power-bi-mcp Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to hook Claude up to a live Power BI semantic model and explore its capabilities. https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/are-fresh-grads-cooked https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/are-fresh-grads-cooked Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT The junior tech job market is genuinely bad. The popular explanation is only partly right, and the popular advice is mostly useless. https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/good-catch https://www.aaronfoong.com/archive/good-catch Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI answers wrong with total confidence, and pushing back doesn't fix it. Why that happens, and a system prompt that makes it check before it speaks.