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ryanhecht

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About ryanhecht

online community owner, developer, product manager

Product @ GitHub - Copilot CLI/SDK/Agentic Platforms

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49225071

    This just feels like good educational practice too? I remember really enjoying TA'ing as an undergrad for courses I took the previous year, because THAT'S when I felt I _really_ le…

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    Comment #49071572

    I truly think you folks did the account transition in the most user-friendly, considerate way you possibly could. There was SO MUCH TIME to migrate and SO MANY WARNINGS about it ne…

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    Comment #49064408

    I knew if I scrolled through the comment section I'd find geerlingguy!

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    Comment #48926905

    Hi Alex! I'm Ryan, I run a Minecraft theme park recreation server. While our gamemode is very far from vanilla Minecraft (it plays more like a MMORPG), I've been interested in stan…

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    Comment #48252098

    That's what we've spent the last five months doing! Have you tried the Copilot CLI recently? We've onboarded loads of feedback from Microsoft devs who were switching from Claude Co…

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    Comment #48252080

    > Microsoft internally is actively hostile to cross-org collaboration The Copilot CLI has ushered in the beginning of a change in this dogma -- I've helped dozens of Microsoft engi…

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    Comment #48250659

    > The developers voted with their feet and didn’t use Copilot. This was true in January -- since then, the Copilot CLI team has spent countless hours with engineering leaders and t…

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    Comment #48215030

    Something cool that I've always liked about working at GitHub is how much of the company _runs on GitHub_ -- A lot of teams, even non-technical teams, have their own repos just to …

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    Comment #48182245

    In my case, it helps improve my ADHD-affected executive function. It lowers the barrier to entry to ingesting information into a system I know I can extract it from later. It gives…

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    Comment #47157190

    Copilot CLI PM here: I'm super proud of our team's velocity and vision as we took this from our admittedly bare-bones initial public preview back in September to what I believe is …

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    Comment #46940290

    Hey! I'm a PM on the Copilot CLI team. This sounds like a bug, we should follow the same premium request scheme as the VSCode extension! If you still have the session logs kicking …

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    Comment #46748631

    The Copilot CLI team has been making great strides towards improving our agentic harness! I'm curious, what have you found are the biggest shortcomings with it these days?

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    Comment #46748608

    Give Copilot CLI a try if you haven't in a while! The team's been working really hard to improve the harness, and we're taking as much community feedback as we can get! Let me know…

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    Comment #44750689

    Apparently they "retired the expansion" of the initialism in 2009: https://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand/

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    Comment #44032204

    Maybe someone will finally build my dream: a WSL distro that I can also dual-boot natively. I'd love to switch between bare-metal Windows with WSL and bare-metal Linux with virtual…

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    Comment #44032143

    Maybe someone will finally build my dream: a WSL distro that I can also dual-boot natively. I'd love to switch between bare-metal Windows with WSL and bare-metal Linux with virtual…

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    Comment #43927247

    Great exploration of this in Defunctland's latest piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNca1L6CUk (There's a "part 2" on Disney's "Living Characters" coming this year!)

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    Comment #43755590

    Definitely makes sense! > In fact, even if you ungzip them manually, as of today nerdlog doesn't support more than 2 files in a logstream Ah, interesting! I read the limitation as …

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    Comment #43754294

    I definitely intend on playing around with this later! I see that [gzipped log archives aren't supported]( https://dmitryfrank.com/projects/nerdlog/article#depends_on_... ), minimi…

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    Comment #43467808

    I feel ashamed to admit this in public, but...me too. The barrier to entry is so much lower than therapy, I feel less anxiety about explaining my situation correctly, and I can qui…

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    Comment #43027857

    John Hench (widely considered the coiner of the "go away" colors as it relates to WDI) brings up the concept of "go away" colors in the color theory chapter of his book "Designing …

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    Comment #42992775

    > about 50% of its marketed capacity > they will offer a 50% discount I feel like I would need more than a 50% discount in order to go along with this...needing to charge/swap a ba…

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    Comment #42890968

    Reminds me of a joke in the musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (written in 1961): PETERSON Oh say, Tackaberry, did you get my memo? TACKABERRY What memo? PE…

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    Comment #42890869

    Ugh, and some of the rows of that table are "sets of models" while some are singular models...there's the "Flagship models" section at the top only for "GPT models" to be heralded …

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    Comment #42890846

    But what would we call that model?