Introduction

Thought I would quickly go over the key principles of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and why they matter. Even though these days I am not working in the title, I wanted to address the theory side of things and how this shapes my actions as a Platform Engineer.

My previous role, I was an SRE Architect. And for full transparency, the reason I left was because of economic concerns. The time I was there, the sales pipeline seemed to have dried up, and I was not sure if I wanted to weather the storm in a consulting company that often let people go for being on the bench too long. NetDocuments has been a great change to that uncertainty, and I am indeed, happy to be here.

Introduction

I know that I tend to talk about AI, and “Vibe” Coding. I use it as part of my role and have a deep interest in AI. Sadly, my new blog seems to have been taken over by blogs posts talking about AI and Artificial Intelligence.

And that is because I am genuinely excited about AI. It really has an amazing potential to automate a lot of the workflows in our life and give us a better, less work oriented life so that we can focus on passions, art, creative endeavors, hobbies, and the things we often find ourselves “working” for. After all, in my case, I work to live rather than live to work.

Vibe Coding: Is Making Me Crazy

The image here and in the title is an interesting one. A fundamental part of my blog is the unique structure i am using. I’m wiring these posts as what I would call “Blog as code”, or using a tool known as hugo to put the blog posts into easily creatable and manageable Markdown files. In other words, I don’t want to spend too much time formatting, and would rather just have a couple of Markdown files that i am managing, put into source control in git, and then automatically deployed out my site.

GitHub Copilot Agent Mode

Decided to write this in conjunction with my Hugo site build to explore the capabilities of GitHub Copilot Agent Mode. This feature allows developers to leverage AI agents to assist in coding tasks, making the development process more efficient and streamlined.

What is Copilot Agent Mode?

GitHub Copilot Agent Mode is an advanced feature of GitHub Copilot that enables AI-powered agents to perform more complex, context-aware tasks within your development environment. Unlike standard Copilot suggestions, Agent Mode can:

Building a Hugo Site

As part of my profile update process, I decided to do it this go around using Agentic AI via Github CoPilot. This is fascinating technology where an AI Coding agent performs much of the work on my behalf. I am using various agents as part of this, and at work, i am using Claude Code. It is incredibly powerful but has a price to match its power.