VentureBeat February 6, 2025
Agentic AI is all the rage today across multiple sectors, including application development and coding.
Today at long last, GitHub has joined the agentic AI party with the launch of GitHub Copilot agent mode. The promise of agentic AI in development is about enabling developers to build more code with just a simple prompt. The new agent mode will enable Copilot to iterate on its own code and fix errors automatically. Looking forward, GitHub is also previewing a fully autonomous software engineering agent, Project Padawan, that can independently handle entire development tasks.
The new agentic AI features mark the latest step in the multi-year evolution of the AI-powered coding development space that GitHub helped to pioneer. The Microsoft-owned GitHub first...