I am a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. My day job is helping some of the world's largest customers untangle complex Power BI, Fabric, and DAX scenarios, often several at the same time. I travel internationally, switch time zones every few weeks, and run a customer cadence that would have buried me ten years ago.

It hasn't, because AI now carries the cognitive load that used to keep me up at night.

For the last year I have moved almost every part of my knowledge-worker job inside VS Code: customer notes, briefings, emails, diaries, presentation prep, calendar and Teams ingestion, decision logs. The point is not the editor. The point is that AI is now good enough to take on the routine cognitive work that does not deserve a human brain. Summarising, transcribing, brief-writing, status-tracking, "what did we decide last Tuesday" memory. Once that load is shifted, the human brain has more capacity for the work that actually matters.

If this workflow keeps me sane across multiple customers and time zones, it should help anyone running a knowledge-worker job at any scale.

Multiple patterns, all live demos. Multi-chat workflows, custom instructions, packaged skills, Power Automate feeding the workspace, subagents for the heavy lifting, git auto-commit as a free undo button, and the mobile workflow that travels with me.

You will see the morning routine fire from a single phrase, a real customer transcript getting absorbed into a profile and diary, and a brand new VS Code workspace bootstrapped from scratch with one prompt.

You leave with a working starter kit you can adopt this week.

This is not a sales pitch for GitHub Copilot.

No vendor agenda.