Beyond Code Generation: A Developer's Guide to Working with AI Agents

At a glance

GitHub says more than 1.2 billion commits were pushed in one week in October, up over 400% from a year earlier. Writing more code does not necessarily speed up the whole job, and this guide explains how to use AI agents (AI that handles several steps of a task on its own) in planning, development, verification, and operation.

Key points

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   Using AI makes writing code faster, but the review time can become longer.

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   With Copilot, you can gather scattered information, compare design options, and create an execution plan.

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   Copilot can handle simple tasks, so developers can focus on difficult decisions.

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   You can continue the same Copilot work on a different device.

Why it matters

Now that AI makes writing code easy, the way work is planned and reviewed determines development speed.