NDC Conferences YouTube · August 13, 2026

Copilot, Cursor, and Custom LLMs: Navigating the New .NET Developer Experience - Isaac Levin

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Why it matters

Isaac Levin compares GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio with Cursor on .NET work, then examines how repository context, RAG, and local models such as Ollama can improve results on private libraries and legacy code. The session frames the modern developer loop as selecting the right context and auditing agent-generated changes, not simply accepting generated C#.

My takeaway: Evaluate coding assistants on representative repository tasks before standardizing them. Define which code and documentation may leave the organization, use local models when the data boundary requires it, and require generated changes to pass builds, tests, security checks, and human review before merge.

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