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GitHub Copilot app's /impeccable skill was used by @cassidoo to refresh the design of PocketCal app, now available experimentally in Settings.
A personal reflection on using AI coding tools (Codex) to build an app, with ten takeaways from the experience.
The article discusses why enterprises adopt AI coding tools like AWS Kiro, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor even when they rely on Claude as the underlying model, focusing on enterprise needs such as security, compliance, and workflow integration.
GitHub Copilot app now supports bring your own key (BYOK), enabling users to connect their own model providers (OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, local models via Ollama/LM Studio, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints) and choose which model per session, while keys are stored locally.
GitHub's Copilot CLI now has a new terminal user interface allowing users to access issues, pull requests, and gists directly from the terminal.
Impeccable AI is now a built-in skill in GitHub Copilot, making design and quality a built-in layer for all creators.
A Microsoft study using 43 weeks of data from 16,223 engineers found that GitHub Copilot increases pull request completion by 40.5% when holding development effort constant.
book-to-skill is an open-source tool that transforms technical books, documents, or collections into structured Agent skills. It supports on-demand chapter loading via GitHub Copilot CLI, Amp, and Claude Code, solving knowledge forgetting and hallucination issues.
A critical analysis of exaggerated AI productivity claims, citing rigorous studies that show modest gains (15-40%) compared to the 5-10x often claimed by vendors, and warns against uncritical adoption of such hype.
A tweet from GitHub highlights the GitHub Copilot app's features, with @kdaigle sharing his favorite uses.
@leereilly shares his experience using GitHub Copilot to quickly build a 3D Rubik's Cube visualizer and solver with animations and GitHub contribution graph mode.
Claude Fable 5, the first model in Anthropic's Mythos class, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for long-horizon, autonomous coding and knowledge-work tasks, with improved efficiency over previous Opus-tier models.
This article analyzes GitHub Copilot's memory architecture, which uses structured memory objects anchored to specific code citations and employs just-in-time verification to combat knowledge staleness. With memory enabled, Copilot's pull request merge rate improved from 83% to 90% in an A/B test on real developers.
Microsoft open-sourced Intelligent Terminal, an AI-powered terminal based on Windows Terminal that integrates AI assistants to help with command-line errors and tasks.
TechCrunch discusses the implications of Microsoft's token-based billing changes for GitHub Copilot, coining the term 'Tokenpocalypse', and explores how AI companies are grappling with cost pressures as they approach IPOs.
Microsoft has launched MAI Code 1 Flash, a new in-house coding AI model now available for free on GitHub Copilot across all tiers, offering improved efficiency and a 256K context window.
General README Skill is a skill pack designed for AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Copilot, and Cursor. It automatically scans projects and generates professional README files, supporting multiple tones, languages, and badge styles.
GitHub Copilot has switched to usage-based billing, making the cost of AI coding agents visible and signaling the end of the subsidized era for US AI coding tools. This shift may reduce US market share as developers realize they don't need expensive frontier models for most tasks.
The new GitHub Copilot app includes a built-in game to entertain users while the AI agent works.
Kent C. Dodds tries the new GitHub Copilot App, which he says is investigating and fixing ~30 broken workshop jobs simultaneously.