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Just Five Mins!

Just Five Mins!

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  • Episode 158 - Your Own Development Team in your Coding Editor
    Mar 27 2026

    Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.

    Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!

    Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):

    https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!).

    Okay, most coding agents (copilot, claude code, codex etc.) have plan modes and so on, but sometimes you just need the overview perspective when creating code or adding features.

    As I have been banging on for the last few weeks about SKILLS.MD (open spec for coding agents to focus your prompts and son), then these two extensions for VS Code (and therefore Antigravity, Cursor etc.) and JetBrains etc. (as well as standalone I think!) take that step a little further and makes things a little more GUI driven.

    I have used Traycer before and it is great at spec driven development (as the cool kids used to say) but as of now, Verdent has some really interesting features - really like having a complete coding team.

    Anyway, take a listen for more info!

    .. oh and not to forget using Olama direct in VS Code (or other flavours of VSC) without extensions etc.



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    9 mins
  • Episode 157 - Skills Skills and more Skills Weekend Edition
    Mar 22 2026

    Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.

    Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!

    Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):

    https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!).

    Yes, skills are important - especially in the AI world and not just for coders!!

    Anthropic created this open standard of skills now supported by all of the main LLM systems (or at least most and others are adding support)

    For dotnet specific skills, click here



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    16 mins
  • Episode 156 - Designers are stitched up
    Mar 20 2026

    Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.

    Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!

    Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):

    https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!).

    As we know, things are definitely moving fast in the AI world. No doubt roles are going to (if not already) change. We are moving towards becoming conductors or orchestrators of software/designs.

    Google stitch is taking the design aspect one step further. Take a listen for more info!



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    6 mins
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