Microsoft introduces GitHub AI agent that can code for you

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on , April 4, 2025. "Using state-of-the-art models, the agent excels at low-to-medium complexity tasks in well-tested codebases, from adding features and fixing bugs to extending tests, refactoring code, and improving documentation," Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, wrote in a blog post. Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI model powers the coding agent, a GitHub spokesperson said. The launch, announced at Microsoft's Build developer conference in Seattle, shows that the technology company wants to make AI a more natural part of the process of enhancing software. The coding agent might help Microsoft distinguish its developer tools from alternatives from companies such as Atlassian and GitLab . From there, developers can check the agent's work from GitHub , a widely used repository for code. They can request modifications and then allow GitHub t ... Read full article.