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Claude vs GitHub Copilot in VS Code

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:22:53 +1000

I’ve been asked a few times lately which AI tool I’d actually recommend for day-to-day coding work, and honestly the question itself is a bit of a trap. Everyone wants one winner. One tool that does everything, handles every task, earns its subscription fee on its own. And I get it: subscription fatigue is real, and nobody wants to be paying for three things when one should do the job. But the honest answer, at least from where I’m sitting, is that Claude and GitHub Copilot inside VS Code are good at genuinely different things, and the friction starts the moment you try to force either one of them to do the whole job.

Advent Calendar Day 7: Utilizing Veeam Intelligence with VeeamONE

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 7: Integrating AI Intelligence with VeeamONE

Disclaimer: I’m not a professional developer, and this content is intended to demonstrate the “art of the possible” rather than serve as production-ready guidance. Use these features with caution, and test thoroughly in your environment before relying on them for critical tasks.

Welcome to Day 7 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Over the last few days, we have spent a lot of time in automation, creating PowerShell scripts and N8N workflows and really seeing the power of automation. Today, I’d like to switch gears a little bit—still on the automation front—but rather than us writing our own code, let’s take a look at Veeam Intelligence.

Advent Calendar Day 6: Building Veeam Workflows with N8N (Part 2)

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 6: Building Veeam Workflows with N8N (Part 2)

Disclaimer: I’m not a professional developer, and this content is intended to demonstrate the “art of the possible” rather than serve as production-ready guidance. Use these features with caution, and test thoroughly in your environment before relying on them for critical tasks.

Welcome to Day 6 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Over the past few days, we’ve been on quite a journey. We explored the Veeam REST API, learned to use it with PowerShell, and yesterday we set up N8N. Today, we’re bringing it all together to create a powerful security automation workflow that could be a game-changer for your environment.

Advent Calendar Day 5: Setting Up N8N for Workflow Automation (Part 1)

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0800

Advent Calendar Day 5: Setting Up N8N for Workflow Automation (Part 1)

Disclaimer: I’m not a professional developer, and this content is intended to demonstrate the “art of the possible” rather than serve as production-ready guidance. Use these features with caution, and test thoroughly in your environment before relying on them for critical tasks.

Welcome to Day 5 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Over the past few days, we’ve been exploring the Veeam REST API through Swagger and PowerShell scripts. Today, we’re taking automation to the next level by introducing N8N (pronounced “n-eight-n”), a powerful workflow automation tool that’s about to change how you think about integrations.