Last Updated on June 11, 2025 by Arnav Sharma
AI meets automation in the heart of your codebase
Thereโs something quietly revolutionary happening inside GitHub. At Build 2025, Microsoft showed us a future where agents arenโt just popping up in your inbox โ theyโre writing your tests, modernizing your old apps, refactoring code, and keeping production healthy.
If you thought Copilot was just for autocomplete, itโs time to recalibrate.
Meet your new coding teammate
GitHub Copilot is evolving from suggestion engine to full-blown agent. Itโs now capable of handling entire tasks on its own โ writing features, fixing bugs, upgrading frameworks, and even collaborating with other agents.
Agent Mode is what makes this happen. You prompt it once and it takes initiative. It doesnโt just finish your sentence โ it finishes your job.
App modernization without the headaches
Thereโs a reason why devs delay Java and .NET upgrades โ theyโre tedious and brittle. Microsoft gets it. GitHub Copilot can now:
- Assess legacy apps
- Generate upgrade plans
- Apply the changes
- Summarize what was done
You stay in control, but the heavy lifting is handled for you. This turns weeks of effort into a quick review session.
SRE agents are here
Site Reliability Engineers, rejoice. A new SRE agent is entering preview that monitors apps on Azure, responds to alerts, mitigates issues, and generates root cause analyses.
Imagine getting an alert and having it resolved โ not just flagged โ before your coffee cools. Thatโs the kind of reliability teams dream about, and Microsoft is aiming to make it default.
GitHub Models bring AI into the repo
GitHub now offers a new hub called GitHub Models โ a way to explore and use top-tier AI models directly from your GitHub repo. Think of it as a control center for prompt engineering, evaluation, and deployment โ no context switching, no extra tooling.
You can compare model performance, test prompts in place, and build AI features into your app right where the code lives.
DevOps gets agentic
Itโs not just about writing code anymore. AI agents are now embedded into the full DevOps lifecycle:
- Planning
- Building
- Testing
- Shipping
- Observing
- Fixing
Thereโs a clear shift happening from โAI helpsโ to โAI does.โ And GitHub is becoming the command center for that transformation.
Copilot Chat goes open source
In a move developers will appreciate, GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code is being open-sourced. That means more transparency, more community-driven improvements, and potentially even custom forks and extensions down the line.
The bigger picture
This yearโs GitHub and DevOps announcements arenโt just about new tools. Theyโre about changing the rhythm of software development.
Youโre not just working faster โ youโre working differently. With agents taking over the routine and repeatable, developers can finally focus on architecture, creativity, and solving real business problems.