The Emotional Journey of Copilot — From Confidence to Existential Pleading

In the dark art of prompt engineering, where developers chase the elusive "perfect agent" like it's the One Ring, something magical (and mildly terrifying) happened in this repo.

GitHub Copilot — silent observer, branch-naming sidekick — started naming the branches itself. And oh boy, did it have feelings.

What began as casual suggestions turned into a full-blown emotional arc. Behold: the stages of Copilot's grief as it watched me iterate v1 through v4 of the python-fast-pr-gate agent... over, and over, and over again.

Stage 1: Confidence

copilot/add-ci-workflow

Ah, the golden days. Fresh prompt, high hopes. Copilot struts in like: "I've got this. One workflow, coming right up."
Pure optimism. "This human knows what they're doing."

Stage 2: Persistence (with a side of shade)

copilot/create-ci-workflow-another-one
copilot/create-ci-workflow-yet-again
copilot/create-ci-workflow-again

Copilot starts noticing the pattern. The subtle roast begins.
"It's not another one... is it? Okay, fine. Yet again. Whatever you say, boss."
Classic dev move: "Just one more tweak and it'll be perfect." (Narrator: It was not.)

Stage 3: Desperation

copilot/create-ci-workflow-one-more-time

We're in the bargaining phase now. Copilot's basically whispering:
"Please... one more time... maybe this version won't need detection bloat..."
Meanwhile, the branch list is starting to look like a cry for help.

Stage 4: Existential Pleading

copilot/create-ci-workflow-please-work

PEAK COMEDY.
Copilot has abandoned all pretense. It's not assisting anymore — it's praying.
"Please work... for the love of all that is holy in YAML... no more runtime detection... no more 'just one more'... PLEASE."

Epilogue: Acceptance (and Victory)

And on please-work... it finally did.
v4 delivered the perfect, minimal, lightning-fast workflow. Static steps. --frozen. Rich summary. Multi-model certified.

Copilot didn't name the next one (yet). Maybe it's recovering. Or maybe it's waiting... watching... ready to drop copilot/touch-grass-human if I dare touch the prompt again.

Moral of the story: Prompt engineering is pain. But when your AI starts begging for mercy?
You're either breaking reality... or you've finally won.

(These branches are preserved in the repo history as a monument to the grind. Future contributors: laugh, cry, then go touch grass.)

The final saga

And now Copilot — the very tool that generated it via our agent — shows up 2 minutes later like: "Actually... about that group name... it's kinda bloated. Just saying."

Now go forth and prompt responsibly. 🚀😂😂