Beyond code generation: A developer's guide to agentic engineering

GitHub published a developer's guide to agentic engineering, walking through how Copilot supports the Plan, Build, Verify, and Observe stages of software work. The guide cites GitHub's 1.2 billion commits in one week this October, over 400% more than a year earlier, and a Faros AI study finding pull requests spent 441% longer in review as teams moved from low to high AI adoption. It details features including Copilot in Slack or Teams, Plan Mode, GitHub Agentic Workflows, cloud sandboxes, session continuity, shared memory, Copilot Dreaming, and Copilot Fusion.