It is INTOXICATING to watch my little setup find the highest priority function that needs unit tests, submit an issue on GitHub, then watch Copilot submit a PR with complete tests for me to review. This is supposed to free me up, but I’m just marveling at the whole thing.
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Alex Standiford
I’ve finally managed to wire up a nice n8n -> copilot flow that automatically picks the highest priority method in Siren’s codebase to improve, and submit a pull request to improve it. Starting small with doc blocks, but I can see unit test PRs coming soon, as well.
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Alex Standiford
Settling into a pretty effective flow – use ChatGPT for most research and generally as a “cheap AI” to gather the context, and prep everything to be built by the “expensive, but more capable AI”, like Claude.
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Alex Standiford
I have chat pre-prompted to always push back on me and challenge my assumptions. Today it gave me this lovely one-liner:
“But “easy” is doing a lot of work in that sentence, so I’m going to poke at it.”
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Alex Standiford
Well, that was neat. I have a ClickUp integration that I use for an internal task system at Novatorius, but wanted something similar for Trello.
Claude Code just churned it out flawlessly, given the ClickUp example.
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Alex Standiford
One of my favorite AI prompts to leverage ChatGPT to help me edit:
You’re an editor and you’re going to help me fine tune this post so I can get it published.
Let’s start with a chainsaw, then an axe, then a knife.
Hack away, move, and organize paragraphs with the chainsaw, Then cut at the individual paragraph level with an axe.
Then fine tune sentences with a knife.
Start with chainsaw.
Do not rewrite. Only make suggestions on things you think could be done better.[Insert blog content]
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Alex Standiford
Remember in th 2000s when we all developed “ad blindness?” That’s happening with AI content on social media right now.
We can all tell when something is lazily slipped out with AI, and because of the lack of effort and thought that went into it, people just skip over it.
If I wanted to talk to chatGPT, I would. But I’m on here to talk to YOU. So let me hear YOUR voice.
Your social profile should be you. Not a robot acting like you. All that does is water down your brand, and make your word less valuable, and noticed.
