Your Agent Forgets Everything. I Measured What I Forgot to Write Down.
An agent session ends and the context is gone. Everything it learned about your environment, every approach it tried and discarded, every decision you talked through together, and whatever it was about to do next….
A Plan Analysis Skill That Refuses to Let You Cite Cost
I have been testing the rules in my own T-SQL style guide against real instances, which means reading a lot of execution plans. Partway through, I started using Erik Darling’s sqlserver-query-plans plugin[1] for the reading….
Copilot Code Review and the 4,000 Character Limit
Here is a fun way to lose an afternoon: carefully write coding standards into your repository’s .github/copilot-instructions.md, request a Copilot code review on a pull request that violates several of them, and watch the review…
Getting Your AI Agent to Actually Follow Your Instructions
There is a special kind of frustration in watching an AI agent cheerfully do the exact thing your instructions file tells it not to do. You wrote the rule. The rule is right there. The…
We Fixed The Progress Bar: A Jetpack Boost Debugging Story
Last week I published a post about Jetpack Boost’s progress bar going backwards. That post was an analysis: what the code does, why the bar behaves oddly, and a commentary on misleading code comments. This…
Four Prompts to an Impossible Tesseract
It’s Friday afternoon. I have an AI coding agent open (Claude, via the Copilot CLI), and I’ve been using Google’s Gemini to generate featured images for blog posts all week. So I decide to try…