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Fixing complex bugs with AI - A deepdive into the PowerShellScriptAnalyzer

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Fixing complex bugs with AI - A deepdive into the PowerShellScriptAnalyzer

Some build failures are annoying. Others are simply impossible. Mine was the second kind. On a plain `ubuntu-latest` runner, a recursive `Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer` run would stop dead with an error saying that `Get-Command` was not recognised as the name of a cmdlet.

Can one agent start another? Queueing sub-tasks in GitHub Agentic Workflows

Can one agent start another? Queueing sub-tasks in GitHub Agentic Workflows

Consider a "dark factory" setup: a software factory with almost no people on the production line. A small number of people orchestrate the system, but agents do most of the work: planning, coding, reviewing, securing, deploying and reporting back. The goal is to define the factory itself as code.

Ground your GitHub Copilot agent in a local clone instead of letting it guess

Ground your GitHub Copilot agent in a local clone instead of letting it guess

A long debugging session lost to GitHub Agentic Workflows. Not because the tool was broken, but because the agent kept inventing how it worked. The model was not being unreasonable. It was being asked an impossible question.

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Auto-assign GitHub Copilot AI Credit budget to users

The deadline for GitHub Copilot Usage Based Billing is approaching rapidly. And today I've been busy setting up automation to assign each user their own bucket of Copilot AIC budget.

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Measuring the Value of AI

The honeymoon is over. After months of aggressive rollouts, enterprises across the globe have given their employees access to AI coding assistants, copilots, and chat interfaces. And now the inevitable question lands on someone's desk: What are we getting for this?

The why for Usage Based Billing for GitHub Copilot

The why for Usage Based Billing for GitHub Copilot

Last month GitHub announced Usage Based Billing for GitHub Copilot. This completely changes the way its costs are calculated. A lot has already been written about the impact and a lot is still unknown.

Github Copilot now available with Data Residency in the EU

Github Copilot now available with Data Residency in the EU

With the current political climate there has quite a bit of buzz around Data Residency and Data Sovereignty. One of the gaps in GitHub with Data Residency, was that all Copilot data could still leave the region. This is now a thing of the past

GitHub Copilot will start training on your interactions

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GitHub Copilot will start training on your interactions

GitHub Copilot will start training on your data... You've probably seen this on your LinkedIn timeline in the past few days. Probably with alarming notes that this can't be controlled and that there is no policy for it. But this simply isn't true.

Picking the right GitHub Copilot model

Picking the right GitHub Copilot model

GitHub recently released documentation on all the large language models available in GitHub Copilot. The list is ever expanding, especially when you have previews turned on for your account. But its still hard for many people to pick the right model for their task.

Running Model Context protocol servers in a specific Node version inside Visual Studio Code

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Running Model Context protocol servers in a specific Node version inside Visual Studio Code

As you might know, I maintain a few Azure Pipelines extensions, for backwards compatibility many of these include Typescript targeting Node 16 still. Today I was playing around with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in Visual Studio Code Insiders and ran into an issue where the current active Node version

Use inline completions for more answers with GitHub Copilot Free

Use inline completions for more answers with GitHub Copilot Free

2 months ago, GitHub gave everybody their taste of GitHub Copilot with the limited free tier. You get 2000 completions and 50 chats. This is awesome! But 50 chats aren't that many. Did you know you can use your completions for simple chat answers as well? And this

Troubleshooting GitHub Copilot keyboard shortcuts in Jetbrains IDEs

Troubleshooting GitHub Copilot keyboard shortcuts in Jetbrains IDEs

Over the past months I've delivered 100s of GitHub Copilot workshops. Ranging from 2 hour introduction talks, where I quickly walk through the main features of the product, up to day-long workshops with interactive hands-on. For most people it's pretty easy to get started.