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GitHub's new Copilot coding agent is absolutely incredible

GitHub finally released their Copilot coding agent to the world and it's been completely insane.

This is in a completely different league from agentic tools like Windsurf or Cursor.

Forget autocomplete and forget vibe coding -- this is a full-blown genius teammate.

This is an AI companion you can delegate real development work to — and it comes back with a pull request for you to review.

It's actually collaborating with you like a real human.

No need for endless prompting -- just assign it massive tasks -- like a entire GitHub issue.

And that's that -- you don't have to guide or micromanage it in anyway.

The agent:

Spins up an isolated GitHub Actions environment
Clones your repo
Builds and tests your code
Opens a draft pull request with its changes.

Make comments on the PR and it will instantly make any needed changes.

It's built to handle real tasks -- not just making edits here and there:

Fixing major bugs, implementing features, improving test coverage, updating documentation, and so much — not just making edits here and there.

But the biggest selling point here the asynchronous delegation.

You're no longer chained to your IDE while an AI tool generates code. You can:

Offload routine work and keep coding on something else.
Get a PR-first workflow that matches how your team already ships software.
Run tasks in a clean CI-like environment, avoiding "works on my machine" issues.

Regular coding agents are amazing — but they live inside your editor. You're chatting with them right there in your workspace.

They watch what you're doing, keep track of your Problems panel, your edits, your clipboard — and they act instantly on your files. It's like having a very attentive pair programmer who's always sitting next to you.

But this Copilot agent doesn't…