About this episode

Scott talks with Don Syme about the emerging world of agentic developer workflows and the evolution of coding tools into collaborators.

In this episode, Scott talks with Don Syme about the emerging world of agentic developer workflows and what it means when coding tools move from autocomplete helpers to collaborators. They explore how modern tools like GitHub Copilot and GitHub Agentic Workflows are evolving into systems that can plan, execute, and iterate on tasks across a codebase, and what that means for software design, type systems, and developer responsibility.

People in this episode

Host: Scott Hanselman

Guest: Don Syme

Topics covered

• agentic workflows
• developer tools
• software design
• coding collaboration
• type systems
• developer responsibility

Keywords

• agentic workflows
• developer tools
• GitHub Copilot
• software design
• type systems
• coding collaboration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GitHub

Products: GitHub Copilot, GitHub Agentic Workflows

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