GitHub Copilot has a new coding agent—and it’s ready to join your team. From planning to production, the entire software development lifecycle is being reimagined through intelligent agents—with you at the helm. At Microsoft Build 2025, we’re diving into the seismic shift happening in software development—and unveiling the future we’ll build together.

Just a few weeks ago, as we celebrated Microsoft’s fiftieth anniversary, we reflected on the original vision: a “software factory.” From the start, Microsoft has been built by developers, for developers. Now as we enter our fifty-first year, we’re reimagining what that factory looks like—with you at the center of a new era of software creation.

Being a developer is like being a wizard: you dream up what’s possible and bring it to life with code. But as apps and systems grow more complex, demands increase, and technical debt piles up, the magic can fade. Coding turns into maintenance and momentum stalls. We want to help you break free from the grind—so you can rediscover the joy, your flow, and the magic of building.

GitHub Copilot has already transformed the way we code—which is why 15 million developers rely on it to build faster. But writing new code is just one small part of the job. The rest of a developer’s day is packed with designing systems, digging through docs, debugging, refactoring, and wrestling with legacy code.

That’s where agentic workflows with GitHub Copilot come in. They’re helping us move faster from idea to production, boost code quality, accelerate collaboration, strengthen security, and now address technical debt and keep apps running smoothly in production.

Introducing agentic DevOps

This is the foundation of a new approach we’re calling agentic DevOps—the next evolution of DevOps, reimagined for a world where intelligent agents collaborate with you and with each other. The agents automate and optimize every stage of the software lifecycle. It’s like adding a crew of tireless teammates to your developer squad—handling bug fixes, small features, documentation, and more—so you can stay focused on the work that matters most.

In the old world, software development was a long, slow relay—weeks to plan, months to build, quarters to launch. Today, ideas become prototypes in hours and reach production in days. Agentic DevOps will help you build faster, crush your backlog, cancel tech debt, secure your apps, and keep it all running in production. The best part is we keep you at the center of this orchestra, conducting agents, and approving recommendations, so you can get back to building epic stuff.