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- Copilot Premium Requests—More Than Asked, Exactly What You Need 💸 — Learn how to stretch every GitHub Copilot premium request, avoid quota meltdowns, and still get reliable AI output. Includes tested models, workflows, and prompt tips. — Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #productivity, #tutorial — 2025-10-22T12:48:00Z
- Did AI Erase Attribution? Your Git History Is Missing a Co-Author — Your AI assistant might be the most productive co-author you’ve ever had, but your git history doesn’t know it. Here’s how to fix that. — Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #productivity, #automation — 2025-10-15T13:29:51Z
- GitHub Copilot Chat Modes: From Chaos to Command 🎛️ — You’ve built your first GitHub Copilot chat mode—now it’s time to tame it. Here’s how to set up, test, and share custom modes like a professional who occasionally yells at their AI. — Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #tutorial, #productivity — 2025-10-08T12:18:00Z
- GitHub Copilot Chat Modes Explained (with Personality) 🎭 — The third way to shape how GitHub Copilot responds: chat modes. Not in GitHub’s docs, but they’re real, they’re in the awesome-copilot repo, and they work. Here’s how to write your own with personality. — Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #tutorial, #productivity — 2025-10-01T14:11:00Z
- Demystifying Coding Agent: Prompts That Always Work ✨ — A field guide to the safest, most reliable GitHub Coding Agent prompts—feature docs, test specs, bug fixes, and more—all proven to ship without breaking anything. — Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #tutorial, #productivity — 2025-09-24T13:36:00Z
- Codeck Presents Verdent AI: They Wanted Opinions, I have Plenty — Previewing Verdent AI through Codeck turned into a full-tilt stress test: VS Code extension, multi-agent Deck, and plenty of chaos. Here’s what broke, what worked, and which parts outshined everything else—completely biased by my own strong opinions and nothing else. — Tags: #tooling, #ai, #vscode, #productivity — 2025-09-24T01:53:17Z
- Magical Coding Agent: The Ship-Ready Spellbook — Flip the right GitHub previews, understand Copilot’s PR shape, batch your review prompts, and keep control of the code—practical notes with just a dash of wizardry. — 2025-09-17T12:42:00Z
- GitHub Coding Agent the Magical Autonomous AI: The Prequel — Everything you need to know about setting up GitHub's Coding Agent for best results—setup, advanced tricks, and gotchas from real stories and wins. Chaos, fun, and no filter. — 2025-09-10T11:52:42Z
- Can We Set the Record Straight? AI, Content, and a Bit of Sanity 🙏 — A story-driven look at AI content, bans, why process matters, and why a little honesty beats a blanket rule every time. — 2025-09-07T19:03:54Z
- The Hackathon I Swore Off — and the Exhaustion That Mostly Compiled — The hackathon I said I’d never do again turned exhaustion into code. — 2025-09-03T12:50:25Z
- Don't judge this version of the submission, but it was driving me insane that I didn't have time to actually finish the post that I had already spent so much time organizing and writing this past week. This is that version, check out how it really went! — Underfoot: The ChatPot for Hidden Places (and Why I Don’t Do... — 2025-09-01T23:41:27Z
- Underfoot: The ChatPot for Hidden Places (and Why I Don’t Do Hackathons) — This is a submission for the AI Agents Challenge powered by n8n and Bright Data What I... — 2025-09-01T07:00:38Z
- What in the World Is GitHub Coding Agent? — An all-in, real-world guide to GitHub’s Coding Agent—what it really does, what can go sideways, and why “all in” was the only way I could learn. This is just the start of a whole series, because honestly, this rabbit hole goes deep. — 2025-08-27T13:12:23Z
- Medium and the Blanket AI Ban 😶 — Medium’s AI policy feels like gatekeeping: spellcheck is fine, but real AI use is banned. Here’s why that doesn’t fly. — 2025-08-24T09:24:50Z
- Three AIs and a Funeral: My Take on GPT-5 ⚰️ — My real-world GPT-5 experience, tested daily in GitHub Copilot + ChatGPT. — 2025-08-20T12:55:34Z
- Weekend Hack: Making My Blog AI-Searchable (No Flames Required) 🔥🚫 — My blog was invisible to AI search. Three hours later (and a solid round of OCD), I built a lazy Dev.to → GitHub Pages mirror. No flames required. — 2025-08-16T12:52:04Z
- Everything I Know About GitHub Copilot Instructions — From Zero to Onboarded (For Real) ⚡ — Everything you need to know about Copilot custom instructions — why they work, how to write them, and how to go from zero to useful fast. — 2025-08-13T11:45:00Z
- Herding Cats in Pajamas: Teamwork Across Time Zones 🐈⬛🕰️🛋️ — Distributed teamwork isn’t easy — especially when everyone’s remote. Here’s how I wrangle projects and people without losing my mind (or coffee) — 2025-08-08T11:16:00Z
- GitHub Copilot - Reusable Prompts Part 3: More Experiments, More Mayhem 🌀 — Part 3 of the Reusable Prompts series covers troubleshooting when GitHub Copilot prompts don’t work as expected — with personal examples, optimization tips, structured syntax, and how to split, share, and reference prompts later. — 2025-08-06T11:48:00Z
- Guess what?! I passed the Pearson VUE GitHub Copilot Certification Exam 🏆✨ — New as of July 2025: GitHub Copilot certification now runs on Pearson VUE. How I registered, what to expect on exam day, rules, gotchas, and a few funny moments. — 2025-08-02T22:04:33Z
- GitHub Copilot: Reusable Prompts, Part 2 — Walkthrough & Real Examples — Part 2 of the Reusable Prompts series introduces PRIOR, my prompt strategy for GitHub Copilot — why it works, real examples, and how to use it in your own projects. — 2025-07-30T12:00:00Z
- Reposting in case you missed it. Blaming AI is easy — but the real issue? It’s always been about people. 🧠✨ — Fact-Checking the Fear Behind “The Dark Side of AI”: The Real... — 2025-07-30T09:28:15Z
- So... This Was Just a Test - You Made It a Thing 🫶 — If you've been following me (or just started), THANK YOU — seriously! To be honest, I really didn't... — 2025-07-30T06:49:35Z
- GitHub Copilot: Everything You Wanted to Know About Reusable (and Experimental) Prompts - Part 1 — An introduction to reusable prompts in GitHub Copilot — what they are, how they work, and why they’re worth adding to your dev workflow. — 2025-07-23T12:15:00Z
- Fact-Checking the Fear Behind “The Dark Side of AI”: The Real Story — This post is a direct response to four nearly identical articles by @abhi_jith_f00c2ff58ac2a7e, all... — 2025-07-20T10:00:20Z
- Is GitHub Copilot Safe? The Fun (and Hard) Truth About Responsible AI 🚦 — It hit me the other day - I haven’t been great about adding RAI disclaimers (especially around here).... — 2025-07-16T12:05:00Z
- How I Blog with Bots (But You Can Still Blame Me) 😅 — The cover image is a result of me getting very impatient with ChatGPT after the third nearly perfect... — 2025-07-13T16:48:18Z
- Name Swap Alert: OCD Strikes Again (But It’s Just the Username) — I changed my username back to anchildress1 (just dropped the extra “1” from anchildress11). For... — 2025-07-12T20:51:53Z
- GitHub Copilot Agent Mode: The Mistake You NEVER Want to Make — Copilot Agent Mode tried to help. Instead, it deleted my secrets. Took me 3 days to find them. Hilarious now. Wasn’t then. — 2025-07-11T12:43:51Z
- ⚙️ Build It Better: Real-World AI Coding with GitHub Copilot — Originally shared as an internal how-to document. GitHub Copilot as a true pair... — 2025-07-09T12:10:00Z
- Calling All NodeJS Wizards: What Would You Add to the Ultimate Boilerplate? — 🚀 TL;DR I'm kicking off a new NodeJS starter template and crowdsourcing the best tips,... — 2025-07-09T06:09:59Z
- 📋 All I’ve Learned About GitHub Copilot Instructions (So Far) — 📢 Just a Heads Up I’ve started sharing these at work as well, so what you’re seeing here... — 2025-07-02T12:10:00Z
- Troubleshooting Production with GitHub Copilot: The Guide for Real Humans (and Bots with Good Taste) — Welcome to Copilot Troubleshooting, Real-World Edition ⚠️ This guide assumes you have... — 2025-06-25T12:15:00Z
- What I've Learned About GitHub Copilot Agent Mode — Surviving Premium Limits & Leveling Up with Custom Instructions If you’re the kind of... — 2025-06-23T00:32:02Z
- 📈 Letting AI Drive: From Hell Loops to Happy Commits — What does 600,000+ lines of AI-generated code look like in the wild? 🛠️ What I... — 2025-06-18T12:10:00Z
- 🧠 Letting AI Drive: A Month of Building with GitHub Copilot — “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” — Hunter S. Thompson What happens when... — 2025-06-11T12:15:36Z
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