Software Development on Tim Schaeps

My GitHub Copilot Journey - Part 6: The Squad

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0200

In Part 5 , I described the compound effect — what happens when trust, depth, breadth, and infrastructure all stack up. I thought that was the end of the story. It wasn't.

Somewhere around week seven, I stopped talking to one Copilot. I started assembling squads. (I realize that sounds dramatic — but bear with me, it'll make sense in a moment 😊.)

This is the part of the journey where GitHub Copilot stopped being a tool I used and became a system I orchestrated. Where I went from having one conversation at a time to coordinating multiple specialized agents working in parallel. And where I started thinking about how to bring this capability to an entire team — not just myself.

My GitHub Copilot Journey - Part 5: The Compound Effect

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:40:00 +0200

Two months ago, I asked an AI to explain an error message. Last week, I built a complete web application — frontend, backend, authentication, infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline, monitoring dashboards — in a single afternoon session of 122 exchanges.

This is the final part of the series (well, almost — more on that in a moment). Not because the journey is over, but because the foundation is set. In Part 1 I built the reflex. In Part 2 I went deep. In Part 3 I went wide. In Part 4 I started automating the systems around my work. Part 5 is about what happens when all of those layers compound. (And yes, there's a Part 6 — because the story didn't end where I expected.)