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- Leash, Not Autopilot: Building Predictable AI Behavior with Copilot Instructions 🪢 —A battle-tested approach to GitHub Copilot instructions—repo rules, priority stacks, validation loops, and why AI needs boundaries to be useful. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #developertools, #productivity —2025-12-17T13:34:00Z
- When the Spark is Done: The ADHD Energy Cycle No One Talks About ✨ —When ADHD energy drops into “done mode,” it’s not burnout—it’s a reset. Here’s what the spark cycle really feels like. —Tags: #mentalhealth, #productivity, #discuss, #adhd —2025-12-04T06:38:12Z
- Top 10 GitHub Copilot Updates You Actually Need to Know About 💥 —GitHub Copilot’s wild late-October 2025 release: agents, smarter reviews, embeddings, metrics, and that one “helpful” test that nearly went to prod. Chaotic, hilarious, and absolutely worth the read. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #github, #ai, #news —2025-11-05T17:50:45Z
- 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 C̴h̴a̴t̴ ̴M̴o̴d̴e̴s̴ Agents: From Chaos to Command 🎛️ —You’ve built your first GitHub Copilot c̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶m̶o̶d̶e̶ agent—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 C̴h̴a̴t̴ ̴M̴o̴d̴e̴s̴ Agents Explained (with Personality) 🎭 —The third way to shape how GitHub Copilot responds: c̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶m̶o̶d̶e̶s̶ agents. Now officially documented and live in your repo, they let you define Copilot’s behavior with your own personality, tone, and workflow—because coding assistants should sound like you. —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. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #tutorial, #productivity —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. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #tutorial, #productivity —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. —Tags: #ai, #writing, #ethics, #devrel —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. —Tags: #watercooler, #career, #life, #n8nagentchallenge —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... —Tags: #devchallenge, #n8nbrightdatachallenge, #ai, #webdev —2025-09-01T23:41:27Z
- Underfoot: The ChatPot for Hidden Places (and Why I Don’t Do Hackathons) —My updated submission for the first hackathon I've done in more than 10 years, here's how it really happened. —Tags: #devchallenge, #n8nbrightdatachallenge, #ai, #webdev —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. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #tutorial, #productivity —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. —Tags: #writers, #discuss, #ai, #chatgpt —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. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #chatgpt, #writing, #watercooler —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. —Tags: #writing, #ai, #seo, #chatgpt —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. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #productivity, #learn —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) —Tags: #discuss, #career, #productivity, #developers —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. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #tutorial, #productivity —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. —Tags: #community, #watercooler, #githubcopilot, #developers —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. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #tutorial, #productivity —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... —Tags: #ai, #mentalhealth, #chatgpt, #technology —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... —Tags: #community, #watercooler, #writing, #githubcopilot —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. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #tutorial, #productivity —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... —Tags: #ai, #mentalhealth, #chatgpt, #technology —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).... —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #tutorial, #discuss —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... —Tags: #watercooler, #ai, #discuss, #community —2025-07-13T16:48:18Z
Comment Notes
- Giorgi Kobaidze posts this “All in on AI, but let’s talk about vibe coding” g...
- First week? No coding. Hand them the repo and an AI chat window, then tell th...
- I was never sold on vibe coding—my thing was collecting. Models, prompts, plu...
- Agenic agents aren’t some magic “set it and forget it” cure-all—they’re just ...
- Yes, Tungsten is fantastic—I’m not giving that up. But Claude’s problem wasn’...
- In my previous life, I wore the leadership hat. Wore it well. Hated every sec...
- AI is like any shiny new tool—it needs training. And no, “AI wrote it” isn’t ...
- AI isn’t sucking the brains out of the population. People can still think—som...
- I’m not losing sleep over the “AI is stealing our jobs” rumor. Jobs change—es...
- I don’t just edit AI’s output—I steer it, handle edge cases, and fix what con...
- This one cracked me up—I dropped a thorough reply to an open challenge, only ...
- I waded into a spicy dev debate because someone had to point out the obvious:...
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