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GitHub launches revolutionary AI agent for developers

GitHub announced the launch of a revolutionary agent mode for its AI assistant Copilot that will be able to write and fix code independently. This is an important step in the evolution of AI development tools, marking the transition from a simple assistant to a full-fledged “programmer colleague.”

“Development teams will soon be joined by intelligent AI agents that will act as programming colleagues for everyday tasks,” said GitHub CEO Thomas Domke. According to him, the new mode will allow developers to generate, refactor, and deploy code in any organization’s codebase with a single command.

Key features of the new agent mode:

  • Ability to independently analyze task requirements
  • Skill to identify additional unspecified but necessary subtasks
  • Capability to iteratively improve both its own code and execution results

GitHub also announced Project Padawan – an experimental project to create a fully autonomous software development agent. The company is expanding language model support, adding Gemini 2.0 Flash and OpenAI o3-mini to the already available Claude from Anthropic, Gemini 1.5 from Google, and GPT4o from OpenAI.

This update comes at a time of intensifying competition in the AI development tools market, where startups like Cursor, Replit, Bolt, and Lovable are trying to capture market share from GitHub, which pioneered this direction with the launch of Copilot in 2021.

Autor: AIvengo
For 5 years I have been working with machine learning and artificial intelligence. And this field never ceases to amaze, inspire and interest me.

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