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# Boost your coding productivity with Github Copilot Agent


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 11, 2025
- **Time:** 11:00–11:30 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 3 - Microsoft
- **Event:** World Congress 2025

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1542-boost-your-coding-productivity-with-github-copilot-agent)

## Description

This year, Github introduced the agent mode for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent. In this talk, we will demonstrate the difference between the three modes and show the advantages to use the agent mode. In agent mode, Copilot will iterate on not just its own output, but the result of that output. And it will iterate until it has completed all the subtasks required to complete your prompt. Instead of performing just the task you requested, Copilot now has the ability to infer additional tasks that were not specified but are also necessary for the primary request to work.


## Speakers

### [Dr. Alexander Wachtel](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@dr-alexander-wachtel)

Ph.D., Microsoft AI MVP, MCT & CEO @ ESC Deutschland
### [Julia Kordick](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@julia-kordick)

Global Black Belt - Developer Productivity @ Microsoft


## Related talks at this congress

- [AI Pair Programming with GitHub Copilot at SAP: Looking Back, Looking Forward!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/884-ai-pair-programming) — Alexander Trusheim, Sumeet Shetty
- [Agentic DevOps: How AI-Powered Automation Transforms Software Delivery on GitHub and Azure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/696-agentic-devops-how) — Mike
- [Beyond the IDE: A new era of agent collaboration](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/824-beyond-the-ide-a-new) — Ryan J. Salva
- [ The Limits of Prompting: ArchitectingTrustworthy Coding Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/637-the-limits-of) — Nimrod Kor