Category: Tools
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Late to the AI-Party – Part 4: More than code
Welcome back to my ongoing journey of discovering AI capabilities that everyone else figured out months ago. If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve covered GitHub Copilot’s custom instructions (Part 1), autonomous coding agents like OpenCode (Part 2), and why you shouldn’t use a sledgehammer to crack a nut when it comes to model…
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Late to the AI-Party – Part 3: Picking the Right Model
Welcome back to my ongoing series about discovering AI tools that everyone else has been using since forever. If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve covered GitHub Copilot’s custom instructions in Part 1 and autonomous coding agents like OpenCode in Part 2. Today, I want to talk about something that doesn’t get nearly enough…
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Late to the AI-Party – Part 2: More autonomous tools
Welcome back to my journey of discovering AI tools that probably everyone else has been using for months. If you missed Part 1, I talked about GitHub Copilot’s custom instructions – a small but mighty feature that makes your AI autocomplete actually useful. Today, I want to talk about something that feels almost like magic (no…
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Late to the AI-Party – Part 1: Custom Instructions
Hey, I’m Lars and I’m late to the party. Like, really late. While everyone else has been talking about AI coding assistants, building entire apps with prompts, and sharing screenshots of their productivity gains, I’ve been… well, I’ve been in meetings. And reading architecture docs. Maybe doing some budget planning. And trying to remember when…
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Tool Recommendation: OneNote Staff Notebooks
An essential part of my job as an engineering lead is taking notes. Most of them during meetings. Or to prepare meetings. Or after meetings to capture some things I noticed during the meetings. My note-taking tool of choice is OneNote. I could explain why I like OneNote, but tools are highly personal choices and…