Taming Your Copilot: A Practical Guide to Precision AI in VS Code Reading time ~7 minutes

Guest post authored by Jules. Based on an audio transcript of Micah yammering to himself about this topic. GitHub Copilot. It’s in your VS Code, whispering sweet code suggestions. Sometimes it’s a mind-reading marvel. Other times? It’s like trying to explain astrophysics to a Golden Retriever – well-intentioned, but ultimately…......

ChatGPT needs some humility Reading time ~1 minute

It’s hot today in Michigan. High temps. High humidity. We turned down the thermostat a little bit, the AC kicked on, stayed on and didn’t really seem to be able to move the internal temperature. Several hours later I was curious… So… I opened up my Beestat app and gave......

I got my GitHub Copilot Certification Reading time ~1 minute

How I studied Used a community-owned practice exam Followed the Microsoft Learn modules Who should probably take this exam? People administering a GitHub Copilot rollout at their organization. My thoughts As a user of GitHub copilot, I thought the courses on prompt engineering and actual usage were pretty good but......

An interesting learning with SignGemma and the deaf community Reading time ~3 minutes

Google announced a new tool called SignGemma which they describe as “our most capable model for translating sign language into spoken text” I absent mindedly shared this in the GR Slack group I hang out in and a friend encouraged me to dig a little deeper into learning about how......

Getting the related work items for an Azure Pipeline run in a monorepo Reading time ~7 minutes

The problem.. I absolutely love this little ‘related work items’ feature in Azure DevOps pipelines: You can click on it and quickly get a view of the work items associated with that pipeline: This information is beneficial in two ways: It is useful information for the person running a deployment......