GitHub ponders kill switch for pull requests to stop AI slop

GitHub ponders kill switch for pull requests to stop AI slop

: Code community site begins to see that AI could drive people away

Building AI agents with the GitHub Copilot SDK

GitHub Copilot is one of the more mature AI assistants in use, having begun life as a way to use AI tools for code completion. Since then, Copilot has added features, becoming a resource for coordinating and orchestrating a wide variety of development-focused agents and services. Part of that development has been making Copilot available everywhere developers are: inside the browser, in your code editor, and now, with the Copilot CLI, in your te…

How to maximize GitHub Copilot's agentic capabilities

Modern engineering work rarely lives in a single file. Real systems evolve across years of incrementally layered decisions—some good, some accidental. A single feature request (“Add tagging to notes,” “Refactor the validation layer,” “Support a new consumer on our API”) often touches controllers, domain models, repositories, migrations, tests, documentation, and deployment strategy. Copilot’s agentic capabilities don’t replace your judgment in t…