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Re:GitHub Copilot Coding Agent by timrogers on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:44PM (#44036209)
Copilot only does work that has been assigned to it by a developer, and all the code that the agent writes has to go through a pull request before it can be merged. In fact, Copilot has no write access to GitHub at all, except to push to its own branch.

That ensures that all of Copilot's code goes through our normal review process which requires a review from an independent human.

Re:GitHub Copilot Coding Agent by echelon on Monday May 19, 2025 @09:53PM (#44037002)
Tim, are you or any of your coworkers worried this will take your jobs?
Re:GitHub Copilot Coding Agent by gabaix on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @02:07AM (#44038276)
What if Tim was the coding agent?
Re:GitHub Copilot Coding Agent by GenshoTikamura on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @02:52AM (#44038535)
Human-generated corporate-speak is indistinguishable from AI one at this point
Re:GitHub Copilot Coding Agent by addandsubtract on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @12:03PM (#44043125)
Terminal In Mind
Re:GitHub Copilot Coding Agent by largolagrande on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @09:50AM (#44041686)
HAHA. Very smart. The more you review the Copilot Agent's PRs, the better is gets at submitting new PRs... (basics of supervised machine learning, right?)