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Piloting agents in GitHub Copilot - Christopher Harrison, Microsoft

Piloting agents in GitHub Copilot - Christopher Harrison, Microsoft

GitHub's Christopher Harrison explains how to leverage GitHub Copilot's agent capabilities. This summary covers using Copilot as an AI pair programmer, the importance of providing context, its different workloads, and how to use the new Copilot Coding Agent with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to accelerate development responsibly.

From DevOps ‘Heart Attacks’ to AI-Powered Diagnostics With Traversal’s AI Agents

From DevOps ‘Heart Attacks’ to AI-Powered Diagnostics With Traversal’s AI Agents

Anish Agarwal and Raj Agrawal, co-founders of Traversal, discuss how their AI agents automate root cause analysis (RCA) for critical system failures. They detail their agent's architecture, which leverages causal inference and large-scale computation to systematically find the root cause in minutes, and argue that the rise of AI-generated code makes AI-powered debugging an essential capability for modern software engineering.