I Need Coffee - Episode 195 - Weekly BC Review!

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I Need Coffee - Episode 195 - Weekly BC Review! (january 2, 2026)

1. Personal & Weekend Recap
   - Went on a 6-mile hike with wife and daughter in Orange County; mostly paved trail but exhausting (sore feet/legs); beautiful beach views on a sunny day during rain break.
   - Experimented with "poor man's" ceramic coating on wife's 10-year-old unwaxed car (Griot's spray-on wax hybrid, ~$100–150 range); based on Project Farm YouTube tests; clayed half the hood as test.
   
2. Vibe Coding & Productivity Insights
   - Non-stop vibe coding all week; learning tools' capabilities (good/bad at certain tasks); described as a new career/industry/toolset.
   - Released two fully vibe-coded PTEs; discovered GitHub Copilot bugs/flaws (e.g., ignores instructions, bad design patterns like exposing internals, missing permissions, skipping Excel headers); workarounds: Prompt for best practices, double-check/refactor.


3. Business Central Issues & Projects
   - BC v27.2 1099 bugs: Confirmed broken (doesn't calculate vendor amounts correctly; reports/useless overviews); recommend avoiding until fixed; configs different, mess likely to last a year.


4. Cyber Security News & Insights
   - "Agentic hacking" demo at Black Hat: Exploited LLM vulnerabilities (e.g., prompt injection via hidden image text); implications for AI agents (e.g., reading emails, executing commands).
   - LastPass breach: Fake Chrome extension stole $16k in crypto; advice: Download from official sources, enable 2FA/hardware keys.
   - Password manager extensions: Full browser access (security trade-off) but convenient (auto-fill, detects suspicious fields); AL syntax highlighting 

5. Upcoming 2026 Events
   - Partner in Vibe Conference: Jan 28–30, South Padre Island, Texas; register at partnerin.io (price increase soon); sessions on building nearshore practice from scratch, avoiding $1M lawsuit, agentic AI considerations, modern support/managed services contracts for cloud Dynamics.
   - Directions NA: April, Orlando.
   - Dynamics Con: May, Las Vegas.
 

6. Team & Office Updates (ERP Center of Excellence, Berlin, El Salvador)
   - David & Joselyn: Wrapping BC implementation tasks; studying for MB-800 certification.
   - Ronald: Managing 1099 "war room" (abandoned v27.2 due to bugs); beta testing/ops for partner dashboard (bulk tenant management/upgrades).
   - Franklin: Finalizing partner dashboard releases; daily PTE vibe coding practice (improving skills).
   - Fatima: Scheduled in-person PMP exam in San Salvador (2-day process: drive/hotel night before); planning first Dynamics user group meetup (late Jan/early Feb).
   - Furry team: Mama ERP cat and 3 kittens healthy/well-fed; bought $70 Wi-Fi enabled cat feeder for automated care (team traveling, manual feeding tiring; limited El Salvador options).

7. Q&A/Recommendations
   - Art restoration channel: Baumgartner Restoration (Julian Baumgartner, ~2M subscribers); fascinating process (e.g., restoring shredded painting); meticulous, patient work; not AI/robotics-replaceable soon.

8. Misc & Closing
   - Quiet New Year's week overall.
   - Holiday wishes: Happy New Year 2026; cheers to surviving the week; go learn something, vibe code.