Practical insights on Platform Engineering, Azure, GitHub, Terraform, and AI-powered delivery
One of the easiest mistakes to make with GitHub Copilot Agent Skills is treating them as somewhere to store every useful instruction you have ever written. It usually starts well, you create a Terraform module skill, an Azure architecture skill, a pull request review skill, or a cost optimisation skill. It helps, so you add … Read more
GitHub Copilot Rubber Duck is interesting not because it adds more AI to the workflow, but because it focuses on a more important problem. In agent-driven coding, the real issue is often not generating code, but catching weak assumptions and flawed plans before they spread across larger changes. This post looks at why a second opinion inside GitHub Copilot CLI makes sense, where it could genuinely help, and why review quality matters more than more generation.
After building a growing set of GitHub Copilot skills across areas such as Azure API Management, infrastructure as code authoring, and diagram generation with tools like Excalidraw and Draw.io, I have found that the difference between a skill that is genuinely useful and one that quietly disappoints usually comes down to a small number of … Read more