July 23, 2025
Beast Mode 3.1 is here. What is Beast Mode? Great question! It is a custom chat mode for VS Code that turns your agent into a Beast. 👉 Get Beast Mode Here’s how it works. Grab the raw markdown from this gist. In VS Code, go the “agent” dropdown in...
February 06, 2025
Disclaimer: This article is mostly satire. I don’t think Copilot is going to replace you, nor do I think you should engage in any of the suggested behaviour. Feel free to wildly misinterpret my views to maximize engagement. You’ve probably seen all the articles telling you how to “supercharge your...
January 05, 2025
Prompt engineering - or should I say “Prompt Negotiation” - is (currently) an important part of productivity with AI. Your success working with tools like GitHub Copilot is gonna be directly related to how well you prompt it. GitHub Copilot does try to handle as much of the prompt engineering...
November 02, 2024
I’ve had a lot of blogs over the years. I think I started on Wordpress (as one does) and then moved to Tumblr (yes, that happened) and then to my own site, then to Medium when that was the thing to do and now I’m coming to you from GitHub...
September 26, 2024
There’s a lot of debate these days on whether or not AI generated code is a good thing. People are quite worried about the volume of code being written by AI right now, and how that’s going to affect us all in this field down the road. Most developers don’t...