by roetlich
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- Who would have thought that git worktree is the technology of the year 2026?
by matthew_hre
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- Unrelated to the feature itself, but remember a few months ago when someone posted Github's beta feature for stacked PRs, and a ton of people slammed them for releasing a seemingly vibe-coded site? To quote Mitchell Hashimoto, "One of the most requested GitHub features in years and the website looks like it was designed by someone 9 years into a 2 year community college program."[1]
When opening the posted link, my first thought was "imagine if the stacked PRs site had the same amount of effort put into it as the Github Copilot App site". They clearly have other preview features on this site already, so maybe I'm just confused on why stacked PRs got some b-grade announcement site. The obvious answer is "copilot", but I'm still curious.
[1] https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2043788123008868600
- Looks good, but after pricing change I have already used 26% this month with very light usage.
Last month I used Copilot heavily, much much more than I usually do, but did not manage to use more than 58%.
by Lalabadie
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- That looks pretty close in shape to the early Ace project Maggie Appleton demonstrated last month.
Edit: This short talk – https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment
- Oh nice! I guess they're back to features after finishing tackling their availability issues [1].
[1]: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...
- It is nice.
But!
The reason these tools exist is not because of non-professional developers, but quite the opposite.
A lot more professionals are now working on more projects simultaneously- something that was not practical just a year ago.
Though, while this is nice, considering that all of the action is happening on the same device, I am worried this is going to increase supply chain risks. Before, a developer would work on clearly designated projects for practical reasons. Now, the same developer can work across many projects that are quite different - for example, the marketing site and the backend - and because of an obscure and unimportant component on the marketing site, there can be an impact on backend systems.
I wrote more about this here: https://chatbotkit.com/reflections/everyone-is-a-vip-now
- As a side note, has anyone else noticed that GitHub have leaked what looks like a sequential customer number on their Billing - Usage page?
Go here and you’ll be redirected with a query string including a customer parameter. That looks like trouble.
https://github.com/settings/billing/usage
- More evidence that GitHub is chasing features over stability of their platform.
- How is this different than the separate Agents app shipping with VS Code?
Other than fewer features.
by jaredcwhite
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- It's weird. I still remember 2008, when GitHub's claim to fame was that it was "the easiest (and prettiest) way to participate in the collaborative development of software."
Now they want to end that collaboration, and turn it into automation. Many C-suite executives right now are smiling bigly. Meanwhile, we're leading the exodus. Turns out, we still want the easiest and prettiest way to participate in the collaborative development of software, and GitHub ain't it!
- I know it has the same functionality, but it also looks like the Codex app which looks like Cursor Agents! Are they sharing some VS Code primitive here?
- looks like google antigravity 2.0, a standalone app instead of a vscode plugin.
- VSCode just released their Agents Mode, this is pretty much the same thing. Surprised they decided to do a split like this all of a sudden.
by 2001zhaozhao
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- It's kind of interesting that everyone is going for the desktop app format now.
These desktop agentic coding tools are a large UX step up from the CLIs, but I still think the future is going to be remote development as the coding agents start running for hours at a time. Building a desktop app seems short-sighted as it would just lock them out of the remote option completely.
by solomatov
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- So, it's not open source?
by armchairhacker
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- Windows App, Copilot, GitHub Copilot…
I predict next “Windows Copilot App” (not to be confused with any of the others), Microsoft’s AI that controls your computer (like OpenAI Operator and Claude Computer)
- copilot had such a lead when this whole ai coding thing started. what happened?
by ChrisArchitect
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- Blog post: https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilo...
by sleepybrett
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- they should have spent this engineering time on stability.
by dude250711
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- Let me guess: some ElectronJS crap instead of a native UI?
- "This page is slowing down firefox"
- Here is the kind of crap they are building instead of focusing on stabilizing their core business features.
And after they will accuse the growth and all to be responsible for their stability issues...
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by MAGAtssuck
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