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I Stopped Reviewing Code: A Backend Dev’s Experiment with Google Gemini —I stopped reviewing code and let Google Gemini build my UI. Then I audited the results to see what autonomy in AI development actually produces. —Tags: #devchallenge, #geminireflections, #gemini —2026-03-04T00:02:48Z
Find the DEV Post That Needs You Now 🫶 —A DEV Community dashboard that surfaces posts needing human replies so members can quickly find where to engage. —Tags: #devchallenge, #weekendchallenge, #showdev —2026-03-01T12:17:00Z
My Portfolio Doesn’t Live on the Page 🚫📃 —A systems‑first portfolio built with Antigravity—focused on outcomes over code, intentional constraints, and the work that lives beyond the page. —Tags: #devchallenge, #googleaichallenge, #portfolio, #gemini —2026-01-24T01:16:49Z
Skills Aren’t Magic. They’re Scoped Context. 🧭🗂️ —Why GitHub Copilot skills sometimes help—and sometimes hurt. Learn how scoped context and SKILL.md actually change agent behavior. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #tutorial, #programming —2026-02-18T13:44:00Z
Conversational Retrieval: When Chat Becomes Navigation 💬 —Building a conversational interface on Algolia where chat acts as navigation, grounded in fast, predictable retrieval. —Tags: #devchallenge, #algoliachallenge, #ai, #agents —2026-02-09T03:00:00Z
From Static Portfolio to Indexed Decisions 📃 —How I built a portfolio as a search system using Algolia, prioritizing retrieval speed, consistency, and real-world constraints. —Tags: #devchallenge, #algoliachallenge, #ai, #agents —2026-02-09T03:00:00Z
I genuinely meant it when I said I was done. I even had that rare, fragile sense of closure. Then I noticed one small thing, which led to another, and somehow became a full pass of “minor” edits. I failed at stopping, but this time I really did. 🚧🚦 —My Portfolio Doesn’t Live on the Page 🚫📃 Ashley Childress... —Tags: #devchallenge, #googleaichallenge, #portfolio, #gemini —2026-01-28T06:15:35Z
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
Signing Your Name on AI-Assisted Commits with RAI Footers 🛡️✍️ —Your AI assistant can help write the code, but your git history still needs a human signature. Here’s how RAI footers make AI attribution explicit. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #automation, #git —2026-01-21T11:46:00Z
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
Waiting, With Intent: Designing AI Systems for the Long Game 🧭 —Why AI orchestration, context limits, and trust matter more than speed—and what building for the next five to ten years actually looks like. —Tags: #agentic, #ai, #architecture, #devrel —2026-01-14T12:22:00Z
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
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
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
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
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
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... —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #productivity, #learning —2025-06-25T12:15:00Z
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
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
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
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
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
📋 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... —Tags: #githubcopilot, #learning, #ai, #productivity —2025-07-02T12:10:00Z
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #discuss, #watercooler —2025-07-11T12:43:51Z
What I've Learned About GitHub Copilot Agent Mode —This is Agent Mode, not autopilot. I tested the edges — from rogue workarounds to “wait, that worked?” moments. Welcome to the weird side. —Tags: #githubcopilot, #learning, #ai, #showdev —2025-06-23T00:32:02Z
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
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
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
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
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
⚙️ Build It Better: Real-World AI Coding with GitHub Copilot —Originally shared as an internal how-to document. GitHub Copilot as a true pair... —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #productivity, #tutorial —2025-07-09T12:10:00Z
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
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... —Tags: #watercooler, #profiletweaks, #ocdmoments, #usernamenews —2025-07-12T20:51:53Z
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,... —Tags: #discuss, #node, #javascript, #coding —2025-07-09T06:09:59Z
📈 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... —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #developers, #casestudy —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... —Tags: #githubcopilot, #ai, #developers, #casestudy —2025-06-11T12:15:36Z

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