Personal Update January 2026

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This year I am back writing blogs! I’ll attempt to provide a quarterly personal update, but otherwise I’m going to be providing a lot on Microsoft’s Agent Framework, Microsoft Foundry and I will finally be getting to that Agentic RAG Chronicles series I announced Q4 last year.

Personal Update

I will keep this short … last year was not a good year for me personally. Every time I “pre-announced” a blog post series (Dec 2024 and Oct 2025), something bad happened in my personal and family life shortly after. Every quarter had its own nightmare scenario happen. Emotionally it sucked.

(Personal Update) Learning AI

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This is the first of many blog posts I plan to make this year, stay tuned (please subscribe) for more soon.

Learning AI

Currently I am working my way through the four stages of competence with the topic of AI. This quarter (Q1 of 2024), I’m currently working on moving from stage 2 to stage 3 in the four stages of competence. For reference, those stages are:

Unconscious incompetence
Conscious incompetence
Conscious competence
Unconscious competence

Last year I moved from stage 1 to stage 2:

In the beginning of last year (2023) I had my head buried in the sand while all the other leaders in my industry were actively learning how to use the latest and greatest AI tool (ChatGPT). Around the middle of the year when Microsoft started making their Github Copilot more available and more useful, I finally started to pay attention and use the new Generative AI tools - specifically in helping my day-to-day activities of coding. I’ve also started to realize that it is nicer to “chat” with a tool in normal language to search instead of trying to find the right mix and order of keywords to do a search (ie. Bing Chat and OpenAI ChatGPT)

Personal Update on Jason Haley

Personal Update January 2026

Personal Update

(Personal Update) Learning AI

Learning AI

Last year I moved from stage 1 to stage 2: