Copilot

BLUF (bottom line up front): Abram Jackson, PM for extensibility of Copilot for Microsoft 365, wrote this week: “Yes, it’s not just a simple router. We use multiple models for a single request, based on which combination scores highest on our evals.” My home lab has been teaching me the same lesson from the other end. Learning flows both ways: what I prove at home shapes what I take to work, and what I see at frontier scale at work shapes what I try at home. This post is the latest turn of that loop, and yes, the pun in the title is intended :-) ...

🚀 Introduction This guide captures a modern, evaluation-first approach to building AI-powered projects using tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, and local LLMs like LLaMA and DeepSeek. We’ll use AsyncPR — a real-world mobile app project I built and shipped — as the public example. Check out a YouTube short video I did here on the App https://go.fabswill.com/asyncpr-shortintro and feel free to test it out! This guide reflects how I work today: VS Code as my IDE, Copilot for code assist, and running private models on my MacBook when needed for security or speed. ...