Tag: GitHub Copilot

GitHub’s August Outages Show Growth Is Outpacing Infrastructure

GitHub's August 2026 report details five outages tied to Actions and Copilot growth outpacing infrastructure. Here's what platform teams should know ...

GitHub Puts Guardrails on Copilot’s Sandbox Inside JetBrains IDEs

JetBrains IDEs are where a lot of enterprise backend work happens — Java, Kotlin, Spring, big monorepos with a lot to break. So when an AI coding agent starts running shell commands ...

GitHub’s New Copilot Feature Takes the Guesswork Out of Picking AI Models

Tom Smith | September 8, 2026 | agentic AI, AI agents, AI coding assistants, AI cost optimization, AI Governance, AI model routing, Code Generation, developer tools, devops, github, GitHub Copilot, model selection, multi-model orchestration, platform engineering, Project HydraFusion, software development

GitHub’s Project HydraFusion brings multi-model orchestration to Copilot, automatically routing coding tasks across AI models to balance quality, cost and complexity ...

GitHub Puts Copilot in the Approval Seat for Pull Requests

Tom Smith | September 2, 2026 | AI code review, AI coding, AI Governance, automated code review, branch protection, code review, Copilot code review, developer productivity, developer tools, devops, Engineering Governance, github, GitHub approvals, GitHub Copilot, PR approvals, pull requests, software development, software lifecycle

GitHub Copilot can now submit binding pull request approvals, moving AI code review from advisory feedback into the merge decision itself ...

GitHub Tightens Copilot’s Billing and Governance Rules Ahead of a Busy Fall

Tom Smith | August 31, 2026 | AI cost management, AI Governance, Balanced review, chat data retention, Copilot billing, Copilot Business, Copilot Chat, Copilot cloud agent, Copilot code review, Copilot Enterprise, developer tools, GitHub AI Credits, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Mobile, Lite review, platform engineering, token-based billing, usage based billing

GitHub Copilot is tightening enterprise controls with upfront seat billing, longer chat retention and a Balanced code review default ...

Your AI Coding Budget Is Becoming a Variable Cloud Bill

AI coding assistants are becoming a variable, usage-based engineering cost, forcing platform and DevOps teams to apply FinOps practices to models, credits, utilization and multi-vendor spend ...

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How to Avoid Repeating the “Automate Everything” Mistake Due to AI FOMO

The DevOps community has already experienced technological extremes. You might recall the time when automation was thought of as a panacea for all possible engineering issues, and the slogan “Automate Everything” was ...

GitHub Hit by Widespread Outage, Halting Work for Global Developers

Jon Swartz | August 17, 2026 | AI coding, Anthropic, API, cloudbees, Cursor, Downdetector, error rates, github, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, GitHub outages, microsoft, Microsoft Teams, OpenAI, SAML, service monitoring forums, , Team Sync

A major technical outage struck GitHub on Monday morning, disrupting workflows for millions of developers worldwide for several hours as critical services, automated testing pipelines, and artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools suffered ...

GitHub Copilot’s Latest Update Bets on Model Choice, Not Model Loyalty

Tom Smith | August 17, 2026 | Agent Plugins 1.0, AI agents, AI coding tools, Claude model switching, Copilot CLI, Copilot Memory, Copilot updates, developer tools, devops, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Copilot models, Kimi K3, MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Ollama, platform engineering, VS Code 1.133

GitHub’s latest Copilot updates add Kimi K3, MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Agent Plugins 1.0, model switching, CLI improvements, and local Ollama support ...

Microsoft Confirms Copilot ‘Super App’ Is Coming This Year — and It’s About More Than Convenience

Tom Smith | August 3, 2026 | Agent 365, agent sprawl, AI agents, AI identity management, autonomous agents, Copilot Chat, Copilot Code, Copilot consolidation, Copilot Cowork, enterprise AI governance, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Autopilots, Microsoft Copilot super app, Microsoft Entra Agent ID, One Copilot

Microsoft is combining Copilot Chat, Code, Cowork and Autopilots into one super app, raising new questions about agent governance, identity, licensing and security ...

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GitHub Brings Stacked Pull Requests Out of the Shadows

Tom Smith | August 3, 2026 | AI coding agents, branch protection, code quality, code review, continuous integration, developer productivity, DevOps workflows, gh-stack, GitHub Copilot, GitHub public preview, GitHub stacked pull requests, merge queues, pull request size, software engineering, Stacked PRs

GitHub introduces native stacked pull requests, helping development teams break large changes into smaller, dependency-ordered PRs that are faster and easier to review ...

GitHub Gives Teams More Control Over Copilot’s Cloud Agent in Linear

Tom Smith | July 27, 2026 | agent guidance, agentic coding, AI coding agent, AI development workflow, automated pull requests, branch controls, Copilot cloud agent, custom coding agents, devops automation, engineering productivity, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Marketplace, Linear integration, Linear issues, mid-session steering, model selection, software development agents

GitHub’s Copilot cloud agent integration with Linear is now generally available, adding model, branch and team-level controls for delegated coding work ...