A lot of the hype around agents has been around writing code, but what if you could have an agent watch for events in your GitHub repo and automatically run a set workflow when, for example, a new issue is created? And what if you could just describe the workflow to the agent, and then have it generate the detailed steps for you? That’s the question the GitHub Next team, the same team that also incubated GitHub Copilot, asked itself.
In an interview with The New Stack, Eddie Aftandilian, a principal researcher at GitHub Next who also worked…

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