For the past couple of months I’ve been co-hosting Code it with AI, a YouTube series with Carl Franklin (yes, that Carl, from .NET Rocks!). I haven’t mentioned it here yet, and that’s an oversight I should fix.
What Is It?
Code it with AI is a series of short videos aimed at .NET developers who want to get real value out of AI tools. Carl started the show with Jeff Fritz from Microsoft, and it’s presented by DevExpress.
Each episode is usually around 20 minutes long and focuses on one topic. We don’t spend a lot of time talking about AI in the abstract. Instead, we show the tools actually doing things: GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, local models running in Ollama, MCP servers, agents, and whatever else is new and interesting that week. As the site says, the show is safe for work: “We’re here to have fun and learn things.”
My Episodes So Far
Carl welcomed me as his new co-host in Episode 39, and since then we’ve covered a pretty wide range of topics. Several of them are things I’ve written about here on the blog, so if you prefer reading to watching (or want both), here’s how they line up:
- Episode 39: Introducing RockBot - My first episode, where I talk about RockBot, my multi-agent project. I’ve written about RockBot in quite a few posts.
- Episode 40: Calendar-MCP - How to safely give an AI access to your email and calendar, and an explanation of MCP servers in plain English. The code is in calendar-mcp on GitHub.
- Episode 41: Claude Utils - My utilities for syncing Claude memories across PCs using GitHub, which I also wrote about in Syncing Claude Memory Across Workstations.
- Episode 42: Claude, Lovable, and ACE - Building web apps with Lovable, Claude Code, and Xebia ACE, the pros and cons of each, and how they can be used together.
- Episode 43: Qwen 3.8 Evaluation - Carl and I put the latest Qwen model to the test using Ollama and the GitHub Copilot CLI.
- Episode 46: Remote Control - Accessing your GitHub Copilot sessions remotely.
Our next episode (not released yet) covers the Claude Code side of remote control, based on my recent posts SSH Is Not a Desktop and Claude Code Remote Control Server.
The earlier episodes with Carl and Jeff are worth a look too. They cover a lot of GitHub Copilot features, skills, agents, local models, and more.
Check It Out
New episodes come out regularly. You can find all of them at codeitwithai.com, with links to each video on YouTube.
If there’s a topic you’d like to see us cover, let me know!
This post was authored with the assistance of AI.