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…
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.