GitHub has announced Agent Mode for the GitHub Copilot. This new model is capable of iterating its code and fixing errors automatically.
It seems like GitHub has created its first agentic AI.
However, it won’t just run code and fix the error. The agent will suggest terminal commands and ask you to execute them.
And as Github puts it, “It also analyzes run-time errors with self-healing capabilities.”
You may think this is where the capabilities of the agent end. It is not. According to GitHub, the agent will perform the tasks you requested and infer any additional tasks not specified by the user but are necessary for the task at hand.
Revolutionary: The Agentic AI.
Ever since AI has exponentially grown, there has been the idea that it would perform autonomous tasks.
The question was: When? For many, the timeline seemed 10 years into the future, but it’s here now. These AI agents are able to do the work of juniors in half the time.
Even though these are supposed to be our assistants that free up time, they will also be replacements for low-level jobs.
It is to be seen whether this displacement will be positive. For high-level programmers and problem-solvers— this could be an era of creativity and experimentation.
For juniors, this is a call to advance their skills beyond what they know. Agentic AI is here, and it’s only going to get complex from here on now.