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…
Sharing GitHub Copilot Instructions Across Repos and Teams
Your AI assistant starts every conversation as a blank slate. It doesn’t know your team uses COALESCE instead of ISNULL. It doesn’t know your naming conventions, your commit message format, or the three anti-patterns that…
“Now I Have the Full Picture” The Most Dangerous Lie Your AI Agent Tells You
AI agents confidently say “Now I have the full picture” but they can’t know what they’re missing. Here’s what can go wrong when you let an agent run things unsupervised.
Your AI Agent Is Quietly Corrupting Your SQL Files
AI agents writing T-SQL via PowerShell here-strings produce LF line endings, breaking SSMS and diffs.
Teaching Your AI Assistant to Remember: Session Checkpoints for Multi-Day Work
If you’ve used an AI coding assistant for anything beyond a quick one-off question, you’ve hit the wall: the conversation context runs out. You start a new session, and the assistant has no idea what…