We dive into these questions and other AI hot takes on the latest episode of the GitHub Podcast.The post Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP? appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

A rewrite this size wasn't affordable before agents. Here's what porting the Copilot agent runtime to 800,000 lines of production Rust actually took.The post Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

If you can write down how you do your work, you can automate it. Here's what I did to support GitHub's APAC marketing team.The post Marketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to follow-up on GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Checking agent-generated code usually means hopping between tabs. Learn how to view diffs, run terminal commands, and preview web apps side by side in the GitHub Copilot app.The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and browser appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

In August, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.The post GitHub availability report: August 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research preview in GitHub Copilot.The post Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful.The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations.The post Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my! appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task.The post How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months.The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.