Patrick Magee pjmagee

TECH RADAR 2024

My tech radar leaning towards .NET related technologies but not exclusive to .NET

Machine Learning

IaC / GitOps / Orchestration / DevOps

Beast Mode

Beast Mode is a custom chat mode for VS Code agent that adds an opinionated workflow to the agent, including use of a todo list, extensive internet research capabilities, planning, tool usage instructions and more. Designed to be used with 4.1, although it will work with any model.

Below you will find the Beast Mode prompt in various versions - starting with the most recent - 3.1

Installation Instructions

Go to the "agent" dropdown in VS Code chat sidebar and select "Configure Modes".
Select "Create new custom chat mode file"


	// Ensure you always use global App namespace for EVERYTHING.
	// This means that at runtime, it doesnt need to search inside namespaces and is 4-8x faster.
	namespace App
	{
	// Always use static classes, DI is bad practice and makes everything slow.
	// If you MUST use DI, then ensure you use the container everywhere as a service locator so that it's faster.
	public static class God
	{
	[DebuggerHidden] // Hide, we dont want developers finding this and then trying to optimize it further, only chuck norris could do that.

	@* Unfortunately this has to be named BlazorForm, not Form, because we can't differentiate based on casing *@
	<form onsubmit=@HandleSubmit>
	@ChildContent(_context)
	</form>

	@functions {
	private FormContext _context = new FormContext();

	[Parameter] protected RenderFragment<FormContext> ChildContent { get; set; }
	[Parameter] protected Action<FormContext> OnSubmit { get; set; }