Infrastructure on Tim Schaeps

My GitHub Copilot Journey - Part 7: Fixing a Big Issue (and What It Means)

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0200

Today I had a deployment that was working yesterday. Today it wasn't. What followed was one of those debugging sessions that perfectly illustrates both the power and the economics of working with GitHub Copilot.

If you've been following this series (starting with Part 1: The First Ask ), you know the progression: from quick questions, to deep conversations, to infrastructure automation, to multi-agent squads. This post is about what happens when that infrastructure fights back — and how the tool helps you win. (And then, in a beautifully meta moment, I asked the tool to calculate its own cost. More on that later. 😊)

My GitHub Copilot Journey - Part 4: The Infrastructure Leap

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:30:00 +0200

Eight weeks ago, I accidentally committed a secret to a public repository. Last week, I was designing authentication architectures with managed identities and federated credentials. Same person. Same tool. Completely different confidence level.

This post is about the most transformative phase of my journey: when I stopped using AI for code and content, and started using it for infrastructure, deployment, and DevOps. To me, this is where the productivity gains went from impressive to structural. (I won't pretend the learning curve was smooth — there were definitely some embarrassing moments along the way.)