AI Archives - James Croft

AI for Engineers

The Safest AI Agent Knows When to Say No

A practical guide to AI agent guardrails, calibrated refusal, confirmation gates, circuit breakers, safe fallbacks,…

James Croft2026-09-01

From a Skill to a Marketplace with GitHub Copilot CLI Plugins

AI for Engineers

From a Skill to a Marketplace: Publishing Copilot CLI Plugins

Turn your Copilot skills into installable plugins. A practical guide for marketplace structure, manifests, and…

James Croft2026-06-01

AI AI for Engineers

Your AI Agents Should Change When They Frustrate You

Most AI agents are written once. They should evolve the day they frustrate you, through…

James Croft2026-05-29

AI for Engineers

How to Estimate Image Token Costs for Azure OpenAI Models

Estimate image token costs for Azure OpenAI models. Learn how tile and patch tokenization work,…

James Croft2026-05-13

AI for Engineers Dev Life

Hypothesis-Driven AI Innovation: A Framework for Building Bold Ideas

Every AI capability you want to build can be encapsulated into a bunch of hypotheses.…

James Croft2026-05-03

AI Dev Life

Will AI Ever Replace the Need for Developers?

An evolving perspective. This article is a living opinion, updated as AI capabilities transform software…

James Croft2026-04-23

AI for Engineers

Applying Domain-Driven Design Principles to Multi-Agent AI Systems

The state of AI solutions has evolved so rapidly over the last few years, from…

James Croft2026-04-08

AI for Everyday

Designing a Machine-Readable Knowledge Base with Obsidian

Learn how to design a machine-readable knowledge base using PARA, Obsidian, frontmatter, and Markdown -…

James Croft2026-03-31

AI for Everyday

Why Your Second Brain Needs an AI Companion

Learn how to build an AI second brain using Obsidian, CODE/PARA, and GitHub Copilot, turning…

James Croft2026-03-31

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Dev Life DevOps

A Guide to Making a Good Pull Request

The best code in the world is worthless if a reviewer can't understand why it…

James Croft2026-03-18

AI

The Safest AI Agent Knows When to Say No

From a Skill to a Marketplace: Publishing Copilot CLI Plugins

Your AI Agents Should Change When They Frustrate You

How to Estimate Image Token Costs for Azure OpenAI Models

Hypothesis-Driven AI Innovation: A Framework for Building Bold Ideas

Will AI Ever Replace the Need for Developers?

Applying Domain-Driven Design Principles to Multi-Agent AI Systems

Designing a Machine-Readable Knowledge Base with Obsidian

Why Your Second Brain Needs an AI Companion

A Guide to Making a Good Pull Request

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