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5 Ways I Use Background Coding Agents Every Day

Coding agents are different from in-editor chat and agent modes for AI assisted programming. They run asynchronously—often in the cloud—tackling tasks while you focus locally. I rely heavily on the GitHub Copilot coding agent and its VS Code integration to spin up multiple parallel workflows. Below are five everyday patterns I use to offload work, speed up development, and keep my repos in top shape.

James Montemagno

Announcing Hotkey Typer — type long prompts with a hotkey

When I'm recording demos or making videos I often need to reproduce long prompts or blocks of text on-screen. Manually retyping them every time is slow and error-prone, and pasting from the clipboard can feel jerky and reveal private content. I wanted a tiny, reliable app that would let me press a global hotkey and have the application type a predefined, human-like block of text into whatever app currently has focus …

James Montemagno

Visual Studio Code, your new Markdown editor

I feel like I have been spoiled for a long time using macOS as there have been a plethora of great Markdown editors. Now that I am full time on a Surface Book and Windows 10 it saddened me that a version of Mou wasn’t coming or planned at all. I write Markdown just about every day between the libraries on my GitHub and writing blogs and documentation. I have always used VS Code for just light weight text editing and …

James Montemagno

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