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Adam Cogan AI, General, GitHub AI, Backlog, CX, Duplicates, github, GitHub Issues, GitHub Projects, Software Development 0 Comments
I love feedback. When you run a popular app or open source project like TinaCMS, duplicate issues are a good problem to have – it means people care enough to tell you about bugs or when they have good ideas. Teams I see at other companies see duplicates as noise, something to be swept away
Adam Cogan AI, ChatGPT, General Agent Builder, AI, AI Agents, AI Automation, Automation, autonomous agents, Low-code, OpenAI 0 Comments
OpenAI just hosted their “DevDay 2025” and as usual, it’s a big update. They dropped heaps of things that are going to change the way we build software, but I’d like to focus on 2, which really blew my mind: AgentKit and Apps in ChatGPT. #1 AgentKit Agent SDK The new Agents SDK, currently in
Adam Cogan AI, General AI, MCP, Model Context Protocol 1 Comment
While working with teams, I’ve learnt that the best way to unlock innovation is to bring everyone together and work on a problem. We do this a few times a year by running Rules to Better Brainstorming Days. I love seeing developers step away from client work to share real pains and ideas, because th
Adam Cogan AI, General AI, AI Agents, AI Tools, Automation, Software Development 0 Comments
AI agents are shaking things up in our beloved software development industry. AI is taking us way beyond the usual automation we’re used to. Instead of just following predefined steps, these agents can actually sense their environment, plan out their actions, and cleverly use the tools at their disp
Adam Cogan AI, General AI, AI Tools, Bug Reporting, Efficiency, PBI Creation, Work Tasks, YakShaver 0 Comments
Back when Scott Hanselman was a Microsoft RD, we got into a long conversation about ‘Shaving the Yak’. Yak shaving is when you get sidetracked by a series of small tasks that you spot along the way while trying to accomplish your main goal. I think most developers find it easy to fall down rabbit
Adam Cogan AI, ChatGPT, General AI, AI Tools, ChatGPT, GPT, LLMs, llms.txt, robots.txt, SEO 0 Comments
Over the last 2 decades, SEO has revolved around one question: “How do I rank higher on Google?” Before Google was popular, I was briefly the No. #1 search for Google ranking because I’d written a page “Rules to Better Google Ranking”. After years of Google dominating information search, new AI tool
Adam Cogan General AI, AI copilot, Code copilot, Coding, Cursor 0 Comments
The dev world is changing rapidly, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) adding a lot of pressure to adapt. We’re moving beyond the days of manually typing every line of code. In my December blog, I spoke about devs adopting tools like GitHub Copilot. I chatted with the SSW developers and saw the other
Adam Cogan Family, General, SSW Projects, Tina CMS 2024 Retrospective, AI, Speaking, SSW TV, TinaCMS, year in review 0 Comments
It’s time to discuss 2024’s highs and lows. Definitely, the high was the successful acquisition of TinaCMS – it is a product we’ve used and loved for a while and it was great fun to work with their team and get to travel to plenty of conferences to promote it. I have mixed feelings about
Adam Cogan .NET, AI, General AI, AI copilot, Coding support, Copilot, Dev Surveys, GitHub Copilot 0 Comments
It’s been almost 2 years since I first blogged about GitHub Copilot and how I wondered how much it would change the enterprise development space. Given the huge adoption and advancement of other AI tools in the workforce, I thought it would be interesting to review my initial thoughts on the tool an
Adam Cogan AI, Family, General AI, Dermatology, Medical AI, Melanoma 6 Comments
📽️ Video: Learn how AI is lending a helping hand to Dermatologists in the fight against skin cancers and melanoma