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How Version Control Will Evolve for the Agent Boom
It's been over twenty years since developers started adopting Git. It's by far the most popular version control system today. And, it will be around for another 20 years to come. The question is not if Git survives through the sheer weight of its ecosystem lock-in. The question is how we can expand, rewire, and evolve Git hosting for a world where AI agents are the primary producers of code. Git captures what was written in plain text files in a repository.
Github Copilot: Your AI pair programmer | Product Hunt
Your AI pair programmer 4.8•20 reviews• 190 followers Your AI pair programmer 4.8•20 reviews• 190 followers GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you. Powered by OpenAI its trained on billions of lines of public code, saving you time and helping you stay focused. Overview Launches5 Reviews20 Alternatives Team Awards More This is the 5th launch from Github Copilot.
Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub ♥️
Home / News & insights / Company news tl;dr: I am stepping down as GitHub CEO to build my next adventure. GitHub is thriving and has a bright future ahead. The following is the internal post I sent to GitHub employees (Hubbers) this morning announcing my departure. August 11, 2025 | 3 minutes Share: Over a decade ago, my family and I made the leap to move from Germany to the United States after the sale of my startup to Microsoft.
GitHub Copilot Coding Agent - Agent that implements a task/issue + runs in the background | Product Hunt
Home Product GitHub Copilot Coding Agent This is a launch from Github Repository Template See 6 previous launches Agent that implements a task/issue + runs in the background GitHub Copilot has a new feature: a coding agent that can implement a task or issue, run in the background with GitHub Actions, and more.
GitHub Copilot: Meet the new coding agent
Home / News & insights / Product Implementing features has never been easier: Just assign a task or issue to Copilot. It runs in the background with GitHub Actions and submits its work as a pull request. May 19, 2025 | Updated May 23, 2025 | 5 minutes Share: We are excited to introduce a new coding agent for GitHub Copilot. Embedded directly into GitHub, the agent starts its work when you assign a GitHub issue to Copilot or prompt it in VS Code.
GitHub Availability Report: March 2025
Home / News & insights / Company news In March, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. April 16, 2025 | 2 minutes Share: In March, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. March 29 7:00 UTC (lasting 58 hours) Between March 29 7:00 UTC and March 31 17:00 UTC, GitHub experienced service degradation due to two separate, but related incidents.
Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot: Agent mode and MCP support rolling out to all VS Code users
Home / News & insights / Product In celebration of MSFT’s 50th anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS code users. We are also announcing the new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan w/ premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, next edit suggestions for code completions & the Copilot code review agent.
GitHub Availability Report: February 2025
Home / News & insights / Company news In February, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. March 12, 2025 | 2 minutes Share: In February, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. February 25 14:25 UTC (lasting 2 hours and 19 minutes) On February 25, 2025, between 14:25 UTC and 16:44 UTC, email and web notifications experienced delivery delays.
GitHub Availability Report: January 2025
In January, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. January 09 1:26 UTC (lasting 31 minutes) On January 9, 2025, between 01:26 UTC and 01:56 UTC, GitHub experienced widespread disruption to many services, with users receiving 500 responses when trying to access various functionality. This was due to a deployment which introduced a query that saturated a primary database server.
GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens
Home / News & insights / Product Introducing agent mode for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent. February 6, 2025 | 7 minutes Share: When we introduced GitHub Copilot back in 2021, we had a clear goal: to make developers’ lives easier with an AI pair programmer that helps them write better code. The name reflects our belief that artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t replacing the developer.
GitHub Availability Report: December 2024
In December, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. December 17 14:17 UTC (lasting 17 minutes) On December 17, 2024, between 14:33 UTC and 14:50 UTC, users experienced intermittent errors and timeouts when accessing github.com. The error rate was 8.5% on average and peaked at 44.3% of requests.
Announcing 150M developers and a new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code
Home / News & insights / Product Come and join 150M developers on GitHub that can now code with Copilot for free in VS Code. December 18, 2024 | 2 minutes Share: GitHub has a long history of offering free products and services to developers. Starting with free open source and public collaboration, we added free private repos, free minutes for GitHub Actions and GitHub Codespaces, and free package and release storage. Today, we are adding GitHub Copilot to the mix by launching GitHub Copilot Free.
Can Europe win the age of AI?
Now Why Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol Is A Big Step In The Evolution Of AI Agents AI agents and agentic workflows are the current buzzwords among developers and technical decision makers.
Inside GitHub’s plan to create a billion developers
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has told TechCentral that the Microsoft-owned company hopes to use AI to grow its user base tenfold in the next decade.
Can Europe win the age of AI?
4 hours ago ‘HomePad’ could make HomePod obsolete, but it might also save it Apple is about to get serious about smart home products, with this spring’s ‘HomePad’ being the first part of a major strategic push. But what does this new device mean for the future of the HomePod? Will it make it obsolete? Maybe, but it also might just save it.
Can Europe win the age of AI?
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Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2024 recipients 🎉
Home / News & insights / Company news The GitHub Awards celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community by honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for creating an outsized positive impact on the community.
Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview
Home / News & insights / Product At GitHub Universe, we announced Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are coming to GitHub Copilot—bringing a new level of choice to every developer. October 29, 2024 | 3 minutes Share: GitHub Copilot has long leveraged different large language models (LLMs) for different use cases.
New from Universe 2024: Get the latest previews and releases
Home / News & insights / Product Find out how we’re evolving GitHub and GitHub Copilot—and get access to the latest previews and GA releases. October 29, 2024 | 13 minutes Share: Welcome to your flow state. This year marks our tenth GitHub Universe—and one theme has remained constant: our focus on developers and the developer experience. Over 10 years, that developer experience has evolved from inventing the pull request to building the world’s most widely adopted AI coding tool, GitHub Copilot.
GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment
We’re redefining the developer environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace–where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software in natural language. Sign up here. In the past two years, generative AI has foundationally changed the developer landscape largely as a tool embedded inside the developer environment. In 2022, we launched GitHub Copilot as an autocomplete pair programmer in the editor, boosting developer productivity by up to 55%.
Survey: The AI wave continues to grow on software development teams
Home / News & insights / Research We surveyed 2,000 people on software development teams at enterprises in the U.S., Brazil, India, and Germany about the use, experience, and expectations around generative AI tools in software development. & August 20, 2024 | 12 minutes Share: Related posts In July, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
GitHub Availability Report: July 2024
Home / News & insights / Company news In July, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. Updated on August 13, 2024 | 4 minutes Share: In July, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub
Home / News & insights / Product We are enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models–bringing the power of industry leading large and small language models to our more than 100 million users directly on GitHub. August 1, 2024 | 5 minutes Share: We believe every developer can be an AI engineer with the right tools and training. From playground to coding with the model in Codespaces to production deployment via Azure, GitHub Models shows you how simple it can be.
Last chance today: Secure major savings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024!
Why attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2024? TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 offers unparalleled opportunities to learn, share and expand your network. Connect with 10,000 startup leaders through 1:1 or small-group Braindates. Get your questions answered in over 300 sessions, roundtables, or breakouts. Network with Silicon Valley’s finest at any of the 100+ Side Events during Disrupt Week. And so much more. For over a decade, TechCrunch Disrupt has been one of the most anticipated tech conferences of the year.
India can be the great link joining the largest population of developers to AI’s immense possibilities
Since the dawn of the computer revolution in the 1970s, software developers have established themselves as the architects of technological innovation, building digital solutions that drive economic and human progress in every country on the planet. India is now forecasted to be the fastest-growing G20 economy, and its digital economy contributes over 13% to the economy as a whole annually.It's clear that where developers are, economic growth follows - and, very soon, India will follow no other.
Unlocking the power of unstructured data with RAG
Whether they’re building a new product or improving a process or feature, developers and IT leaders need data and insights to make informed decisions. When it comes to software development, this data exists in two ways: unstructured and structured. While structured data follows a specific and predefined format, unstructured data—like email, an audio or visual file, code comment, or commit message—doesn’t.
GitHub CEO predicts Indian economic boom from convergence of software and AI
23 minutes ago crn.in GitHub revealed that there are over 15.4 million developers in India building on GitHub, growing 33% year-over-year (YoY). India is set to pass the United States as the largest developer community on GitHub by 2027. With this growth, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke highlighted that India’s burgeoning developer community, combined with the newfound possibilities of AI, will not only accelerate digital transformation, but will drive immense human and economic progress for India.
The latest developer news & insights
This partnership between GitHub and JFrog enables developers to manage code and binaries more efficiently on two of the most widely used developer platforms in the world.
GitHub and JFrog partner to unify code and binaries for DevSecOps
As the volume of code continues to grow exponentially, software developers, DevOps engineers, operations teams, security specialists, and everyone else who touches code are increasingly spending their time in the weeds of securing, delivering, and scaling software. This bottles up creativity and ultimately slows software development for every organization.
With AI, anyone can be a coder now
Ai Software 9 hours ago AI software engineers make $100,000 more than their colleagues Quartz - Laura Bratton • 9h The AI boom and a growing talent shortage has resulted in companies paying AI software engineers a whole lot more than their non-AI counterparts. Related Content Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and the 20 other leaders on the new AI safety board Jeff Bezos' $100 million, Google's $100 billion, and … Technology 14 hours ago No Coding Skills?
With AI, anyone can be a coder now
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Research: Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact in the enterprise with Accenture
Since bringing GitHub Copilot to market, we’ve conducted several lab studies to discover its impact on developer efficiency, developer satisfaction, and overall code quality. We found that our AI pair programmer helps developers code up to 55% faster and that it made 85% of developers feel more confident in their code quality.
GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub Mobile is now generally available
Developers are constantly coming up with new ideas, exploring new skills, and collaborating with other developers on work and personal projects. At GitHub, we understand that all this collaboration doesn’t always happen from behind desks and computers. Developers increasingly use their mobile devices to learn, understand, and perform important tasks in the software development process.
GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment
We’re redefining the developer environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace–where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software in natural language. Sign up here. In the past two years, generative AI has foundationally changed the developer landscape largely as a tool embedded inside the developer environment. In 2022, we launched GitHub Copilot as an autocomplete pair programmer in the editor, boosting developer productivity by up to 55%.
The world's fair of software: Join us at GitHub Universe 2024
Imagine arriving at a conference and immediately feeling inspired: your agenda is packed with must-see GitHub Copilot sessions, booths are filled with experts from top tech companies, and you’re surrounded by thousands of fellow developers and leaders who are eager to connect. That is the experience we’re curating for the 10th anniversary of our global developer event. This year, we’re going bigger and better with a stunning new venue as the foundation.
Helping policymakers weigh the benefits of open source AI
Home / News & insights / Policy GitHub enables developer collaboration on innovative software projects, and we’re committed to ensuring policymakers understand developer needs when crafting AI regulation. April 10, 2024 | Updated April 12, 2024 | 3 minutes Share: Policymakers are increasingly focusing on software components of AI systems, and how developers are making AI model weights available for downstream use.
GitHub Copilot Learning Pathway: Accelerate your business with AI
Research shows that developers complete tasks 55% faster at higher quality when using GitHub Copilot, helping businesses accelerate the pace of software development and deliver more value to their customers. We understand that adopting new technologies in your business involves thorough evaluation and gaining cross functional alignment.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available
Since the early days of GitHub Copilot, our customers have asked us for a copilot that is customized to their own organization’s code and processes. Developers spend more time deciphering rather than shipping when they can’t pinpoint and solve the issues, bugs, or vulnerabilities that are unique to their organization’s codebase. What’s more, developers often write code for only a couple hours a day and, instead of being creative, are bogged down with mundane tasks throughout their day.
Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data.
The wait is over: we finally have data to back up the benefits of developer experience (DevEx). We’ve always known that providing a good DevEx is a smart business move, as it enables developers to solve complex tasks, collaborate with peers, and unleash their creativity. We hear this from customers all the time. But despite the benefits, DevEx conversations usually end when execs ask for hard data on what their business will gain by improving it.
Yes, good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data.
The wait is over: we finally have data to back up the benefits of developer experience (DevEx). We’ve always known that providing a good DevEx is a smart business move, as it enables developers to solve complex tasks, collaborate with peers, and unleash their creativity. We hear this from customers all the time. But despite the benefits, DevEx conversations usually end when execs ask for hard data on what their business will gain by improving it.
How to get in the flow while coding (and why it’s important)
It’s the dream: your ideas are flowing, time and space fade away, the path ahead of you is clear, you’re moving at the speed of thought, and every click you make is gold. This is called being in the flow or flow state. When you’re in the flow, you block out the world, are fully immersed in what you’re doing, and enjoy . “Being in the flow is magical,” says Jonathan Carter, technical advisor of the CEO at GitHub.
How to get in the flow while coding (and why it’s important)
It’s the dream: your ideas are flowing, time and space fade away, the path ahead of you is clear, you’re moving at the speed of thought, and every click you make is gold. This is called being in the flow or flow state. When you’re in the flow, you block out the world, are fully immersed in what you’re doing, and enjoy . “Being in the flow is magical,” says Jonathan Carter, technical advisor of the CEO at GitHub.
GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals
All GitHub Copilot users can now enjoy natural language-powered coding with Copilot Chat at no additional cost. At GitHub Universe, we announced that GitHub Copilot has expanded and evolved GitHub into the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform. A core piece of our AI-powered developer platform is GitHub Copilot Chat, which enables the rise of natural language as the new universal programming language.
Release Radar · End of 2023 Edition
Hacktoberfest has wrapped up, GitHub Universe has come to a close, and our community has been super hard at work. All the while people enjoyed turkey over Thanksgiving in the… Hacktoberfest has wrapped up, GitHub Universe has come to a close, and our community has been super hard at work. All the while people enjoyed turkey over Thanksgiving in the United States and Canada and expressed gratitude for those around them.
Release Radar · Thanksgiving 2023 Edition
Hacktoberfest has wrapped up, GitHub Universe has come to a close, and our community has been super hard at work. All the while people have been enjoying turkey and expressing… Hacktoberfest has wrapped up, GitHub Universe has come to a close, and our community has been super hard at work. All the while people have been enjoying turkey and expressing gratitude for those around them.
Default setup now includes scheduled scans and supports all languages covered by CodeQL
This year, we’ve made a number of improvements focused on simplifying the enablement process for code scanning. We started back in January with the release of default setup, which allows you to automatically enable code scanning on a repository in just a few clicks. We then gave you the ability to rapidly scale code scanning through multi-repository enablement, allowing you to use default setup on groups of repositories or your entire organization at once.
How we’re experimenting with LLMs to evolve GitHub Copilot
Earlier this year, it seemed like every headline or dinner conversation was earmarked by the buzzwords “generative AI.” And while 2023 has been a benchmark year for the adoption of generative AI, it’s not entirely a new technology. Arguably, AI has been around since the ‘60s, but the AI as we know it today came to be with the invention of machine learning frameworks known as neural networks (you can read more about that here).
Universe's key takeaway: Innovate better with AI-powered workflows on a single, unified platform
I’ve been a developer my entire career and I know what it takes to get the job done. You have to love to build. You have to love to experiment. And you have to think beyond today. As a leader, I’ve learned that to foster that passion, organizations need to prioritize DevEx, which means keeping you in the flow from idea to production.
Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform
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Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform
In March, we shared our vision of a new future of software development with Copilot X, where AI infuses every step of the developer lifecycle. Since then, we’ve been working to scale and mature the underlying technology–and in the process we created something even bigger. Our vision has manifested itself into a new reality for the world’s developers. Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot. Open source and Git have fundamentally transformed how we build software.
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