Blog Posts & Articles

Written content from the community about AI-assisted AL development

Overview

This page curates blog posts, articles, and written guides from the Business Central community about using AI coding assistants for AL development.

Getting Started

“Vibe Coding — yes or no?” — Demiliani

Author: Demiliani Published: 2025-08-21 Summary: A thoughtful exploration of the Vibe Coding approach and whether its rules and conventions help or hinder real-world AL development.

Key Takeaways:

  • Pros and cons of strict Vibe Coding rules
  • When to adopt vs. adapt guidance for your team
  • Practical examples and trade-offs

Link: https://demiliani.com/2025/08/21/vibe-coding-yes-or-no/


“Gestión de contexto y estados en servidores MCP” — TechSphere Dynamics

Author: TechSphere Dynamics Published: 2025-08-15 Summary: A Spanish-language deep dive into context handling and state management patterns for MCP servers, including practical patterns used in production systems.

Key Takeaways:

  • Context lifecycle and state management strategies
  • Common pitfalls when preserving or discarding context
  • Examples of robust MCP server patterns

Link: https://techspheredynamics.com/2025/08/15/gestion-de-contexto-y-estados-en-servidores-mcp/


“Testing GitHub Copilot: knowledge engineering — what actually works and what doesn’t” — Nubimancy

Author: Nubimancy Published: 2025-09-09 Summary: An empirical look at how well GitHub Copilot handles knowledge-engineering tasks, with experiments and practical recommendations for prompt authors.

Key Takeaways:

  • Which prompting patterns produce reliable results
  • When Copilot is prone to hallucination or brittle outputs
  • Strategies to validate and refine AI-suggested knowledge artifacts

Link: https://nubimancy.com/2025/09/09/testing-github-copilot-knowledge-engineering-what-actually-works-and-what-doesnt/


Each of these are just great examples from those blogs, so make sure to explore around!


Contributing Articles

Have you written about AI-assisted AL development? We’d love to include high-quality, publicly accessible content from the community.

Submission checklist:

  • Publicly accessible article or blog post
  • Clearly focused on AL / Business Central development
  • Accurate, well-written, and actionable
  • Original work or properly attributed

How to submit:

  1. Review the Contributing guidelines
  2. Open a pull request adding your article to this list
  3. Provide: Title, Author, Short Summary (1–2 lines), and Link

Article Quality Criteria

Items listed on this page should meet these standards:

  • Technically accurate
  • Relevant to AL development
  • Clear and well-written
  • Provides actionable insights
  • Publicly accessible

Updates

This is a living document — new resources will be added as the community publishes them. To suggest an addition, open a PR against this repository and follow the submission checklist above.



Last modified October 17, 2025: Merge pull request #272 from microsoft/agentic-assistance-hub (2c230e3) by Jeremy Vyska