Category: Artificial Intelligence
Policies Don’t Lead
Over the past year, we’ve spent a lot of time helping organizations figure out what AI actually means for their business. We’ve also been doing the same work ourselves inside Don’t Panic Labs. Along the way, something has become increasingly obvious to me. Almost everyone starts in the same place. Someone asks Legal to draft…
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The Interface Is Dissolving
For twenty years, the job was the same. A person points, clicks, types, and navigates to a result, and we design every step of that path. Software waits. The human is the engine. Agents break that. When software can understand what you want and act on its own to get there, the interface stops being…
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Building with the GitHub Copilot SDK, Part 8: Sketch-First UI Design
In Part 7, I walked through the UX Design Tool we built into What is Done — one that spins up a full Angular + PrimeNG app in about 10 seconds. That tool is great when you need a working skeleton fast. But sometimes you don’t need a full framework. Sometimes you just want to…
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GitHub Squad: Your AI Dev Team Living Inside the Repo
We are rapidly moving to a world where multiple agents are the default pattern for many tasks. Each agent has its own agenda, expertise, and perspective — and together they collaborate to solve complex problems faster and more reliably than a single model ever could. Why not just stuff everything into a bigger context window…
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Tokens Are the Unit
Disclaimer: What follows was true as of 6/3/2026. Considering the speed at which the AI space is moving, the dollars referenced below will change. “What’s this going to cost per month?” Now that I sit in the CTO seat, I understand why that answer matters. It is not a curiosity question. It is a staffing,…
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Building with the GitHub Copilot SDK, Part 7: A UX Design Tool That Actually Keeps Up
Every developer has been there. You have an idea for a layout, maybe a dashboard or a data-heavy form, and you just want to see it. Not tomorrow. Not after you wire up a backend. Right now. But the gap between the picture in your head and something running in a browser always seems to…
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Zero Gravity Prototyping with Google Antigravity
The hardest part of prototyping a new feature isn’t the idea. It’s the wait. You have a product owner with a vision. You have a designer with mockups. And you have a backend that isn’t ready yet. In a traditional workflow, the frontend sits idle until the API exists. That wait kills momentum, and momentum…
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Building with the GitHub Copilot SDK, Part 6 – Styling with CSS Design Tokens and Themes
In my previous post, I pulled Outlook calendar data into Chad’s Copilot and added time-allocation metrics that show how much of your week is already committed. That was about making the app useful. This post is about making it look good. You stare at this thing all day, so it better not just work —…
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Nobody Wants to Do Maintenance
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” — Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut wasn’t talking about software. But he could have been. Maintenance has always been the unglamorous part of the job. New features get roadmaps and launch announcements. Fixing that gnarly bug from 2019 gets…
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The Five Stages of Developer Grief
I have talked to a lot of developers over the past two years. Some are excited about AI coding tools. Most are not. A few are outright hostile. When I listen carefully to what they are saying, I hear something familiar. They are grieving. That is not a criticism. Grief is a reasonable response to…
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