Blog Posts with Tag AI

How to Create a Custom GitHub Copilot Agent

I’ve been trying to use Copilot more for focused workflows lately, and one of the best upgrades is creating custom agents for specific tasks. Instead of re-explaining context in every prompt, I can encode behavior once in an agent profile and reuse it. In this article, I'll share how I created a custom Copilot agent for authoring blog post which actually helped me with the rough draft of this blog article. While this seems a bit like cheating, I often find looking up…

February 13, 2026
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approximately 3 minutes to read
Using JetBrains Junie to Create a Scientific Blog Article Template

Disclaimer This article was written by the Jetbrains Junie AI agent. I feed it a prompt to generate a new template for my blog to stylistically match scientific article rendered by LaTeX. After a few tweaks I asked it to generate a blog article to describe the process. The prompt I fed it to create this article: The remainder of this page is the generated output of the AI agent. Introduction The integration of artificial intelligence into software development workflows has…

May 01, 2025
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approximately 4 minutes to read
Building a Pig Latin Translating Chat Bot

Generative AI is reshaping software development and becoming a tool that is rapidly expanding in capability. As such, I plan to spend more time on learning and implementing AI-related functionality over the coming year. I'm going to make an LLM that translates a statement to pig latin. Pretty quickly we'll see the AI chatbot has varying degrees of success performing even this basic task. I will offload the task of doing the pig latin translation to a tool with the LLM will…

April 19, 2025
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approximately 6 minutes to read
Jetbrains Rider 2023.2 EAP and AI Assisted Unit Testing

In my pursuit of refining software development methodologies, I have put a few artificial intelligence (AI) assistants to the test. Initial experiences, were met with mixed results. They just didn't work well for my personal coding flow. While the AI system's capabilities extended to elementary code completions at the time, they struggled to deliver when tasked with increasingly complex code structures. A recent foray into using JetBrains' latest Rider EAP has been a game…

July 21, 2023
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approximately 3 minutes to read
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