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Work Update - Feb/March 2026
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Work Update - February/March 2026

Max - Personal AI Developer Assistant (Copilot SDK)

Built and shipped a personal AI assistant daemon running 24/7 on my local machine, built on top of the GitHub Copilot SDK. Key work this period:

  • Copilot SDK integration - Using the SDK to power a conversational assistant that can run coding tasks, manage files, and orchestrate worker sessions
  • Memory leak fixes - Identified and fixed worker sessions never being destroyed (each ~400MB RSS), causing overnight OOM crashes
  • Session recovery - Investigating SDK limitations around resuming existing sessions; built workaround with context injection
  • Telegram bot interface - Built a mobile interface so I can interact with the assistant from my phone; rewrote the Markdown formatter for mobile readability
  • Skill system - Modular skill architecture that lets the assistant learn new capabilities (Gmail, browser automation, smart home, YouTube transcripts, etc.)
  • Public site - Redesigned the project landing page at burkeholland.github.io/max

AI Town - Community Demo Project

Active work on deploying and stabilizing a multi-agent AI demo environment:

  • Rolled out vnext branch with incremental smoke-tested deployments
  • Fixed share card / OG image generation for social sharing
  • Added "fledgling project" job types for the agent dispatch system
  • Built and ran dispatch workflow for automated AI agent orchestration
  • Ran GitHub Actions pipeline with staged rollout and health checks

Developer Advocacy / YouTube Content

  • Scripted and planned a YouTube Shorts series on GitHub Copilot tips - targeting developers using Copilot in VS Code
    • "The Logging Hack" - stop debugging rabbit holes after 3 tries
    • "New Chat at 3 Errors" - context poisoning and when to start fresh
    • "Stop Describing, Start Pointing" - reference files over prose descriptions
    • "Ask for the Worst Case" - adversarial self-review prompt
    • "copilot-instructions.md" - persistent project context (in progress)
  • Blog posts published:
    • "We Don't Know What's Out There" - AI trajectory and developer anxiety
    • "Nothing Worth Remembering" - on craft and what we leave behind
  • Copilot team AMA - Reviewed and summarized the recent GitHub Copilot Reddit AMA for content planning

Daily Dev - GitHub Notifications Newspaper

Built a small local tool that pulls GitHub notifications and renders them as a daily newspaper-style digest. Running at localhost:4242.

Last updated: March 6, 2026

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