GitHub's plan for Agents — Kyle Daigle, GitHub

About this episode

The episode discusses GitHub's challenges and innovations in response to the rise of coding agents and AI in software development.

I’m excited to work with Microsoft once again as the presenting sponsors of the AI Engineer World’s Fair ! We’ll streaming live from MS Build today for a special crossover pod with our friends at No Priors and the one and only Satya Nadella . However we did not hold back with this interview - we asked all the burning questions about uptime and Copilot that we know you have in your minds. Lets go! For almost two decades, GitHub has been the home of software, where both open source and closed flow, through commits, pull requests, reviews, actions, etc. This ecosystem flourished as open-source maintainers and contributors would continue shipping code for the benefit of the community. However as coding agents began to ship mass quantities of code - growing 1400% in 2026 , it marked a new era that was both extremely exciting and challenging for GitHub. While these agents help more people ship more projects, they also significantly increase the floor of how much code is shipped, how often it is shipped, how many people commit code, and basically orders of magnitude multiples in every dimension of GitHub infrastructure: Now GitHub inevitably experiences more pressure on their…

People in this episode

Guest: Kyle Daigle

Topics covered

• AI
• software development
• GitHub infrastructure
• open source
• coding agents
• Copilot
• CI/CD

Keywords

• GitHub
• AI Engineer World’s Fair
• coding agents
• Copilot
• infrastructure
• open source
• CI/CD

Sponsors

Microsoft

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GitHub

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