Hello, I am Sebastian Gingter

I am a professional software developer for over two decades, and in that time I had the luck to experience a lot of technologies and how software development in general changed over the years.

Here at Thinktecture my primary focus is right on Generative AI in business settings, Semantic Search, scalable and performant backend technologies with (ASP) .NET Core, developer productivity and tooling as well as software quality.

Since I held my first conference talk back in 2008 I love sharing my experience and learnings with you. I speak on conferences internationally and write articles here, on my personal blog and in print. Because of my engagement I was awarded an Microsoft MVP for developer technologies.

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sebastian.gingter@thinktecture.com

Blog-Posts by Sebastian

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Techniques for adding personas into your AI integrations

Published: 12.01.2024

Meet your users with empathy and personality! Discover how injecting personas into your AI integrations can transform bland, automated interactions into engaging, human-like conversations. Learn the art of crafting perfect prompts and personalizing chatbot responses to align with your brand's identity and resonate with your audience. From formal tones for professional settings to a friendly vibe f [...]

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Some tactics to avoid prompt injection

Published: 10.01.2024

In the evolving landscape of AI technology, the security threat known as "prompt injection" emerges as a significant risk, challenging the integrity of AI systems. Our latest discussion dives into this cyber threat and unveils essential defenses, emphasizing a layered 'Swiss cheese' approach to cybersecurity. Learn pragmatic methods to fortify your AI integrations, from enforcing the principle of [...]

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How function calling and metadata make all the difference for AI integration, especially in .NET

Published: 20.12.2023

Explore how to enhance your .NET applications with generative AI, moving beyond semantic search to leveraging function calling and tool integration. Discover efficient, out-of-the-box C# and .NET features to transform your AI from a chat companion to an effective Co-Pilot [...]

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Improved RAG: More effective Semantic Search with content transformations

Published: 07.11.2023

One of the more pragmatic ways to jump on the current AI hype and get some value out of it is to use semantic search. Semantic search in itself is a very simple concept: you have a bunch of documents and you want to find the most similar ones to a given query. While the […] [...]

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Articles written by Sebastian

Improved RAG: More effective Semantic Search with content transformations

One of the more pragmatic ways to get going on the current AI hype, and to get some value out of it, is by leveraging semantic search. This is, in itself, a relatively simple concept: You have a bunch of documents and want to find the correct one based on a given query. The semantic part now allows you to find the correct document based on the meaning of its contents, in contrast to simply finding words or parts of words in it like we usually do with lexical search. In our last projects, we gathered some experience with search bots, and with this article, I'd love to share our insights with you.

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17.05.2024

| Sebastian Gingter

.NET

.NET 7 Performance: Regular Expressions – Part 2

There is this popular quote by Jamie Zawinski: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems."

In this second article of our short performance series, we want to look at the latter one of those problems.

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25.04.2023

| Sebastian Gingter

.NET

.NET 7 Performance: Introduction and Runtime Optimizations – Part 1

.NET 7 is fast. Superfast. All the teams at Microsoft working on .NET are keen to improve the performance and do so every year with each new .NET release. Though this time the achievements are really impressive. In this series of short articles, we want to explore some of the most significant performance updates in .NET and look at how that may affect our own projects. This first article is taking a deep look under the hood of the compiler and the runtime to look for some remarkably interesting and significant updates.

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28.03.2023

| Sebastian Gingter

Blazor

Understanding and Controlling the Blazor WebAssembly Startup Process

There are a lot of things going on in the background, when a Blazor WebAssembly application is being started. In some cases you might want to take a bit more control over that process. One example might be the wish to display a loading screen for applications that take some time for initial preparation, or when users are on a slow internet connection. However, in order to control something, we need to understand what is happening first. This article takes you down the rabbit hole of how a Blazor WASM application starts up.

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07.03.2023

| Sebastian Gingter

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Prompt Injections, Halluzinationen & Co. – LLMs sicher in die Schranken weisen

(Deutsch) | Sebastian Gingter

EKON 28 |

04.11.2024 -

06.11.2024 @

Düsseldorf (

DE)

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