Exploring the Squad project for doing multi-agent orchestration with Copilot CLI
You may’ve heard Microsoft & GitHub talking about entering an era of software development where hybrid teams of agents and humans work together to build and maintain apps. This sounds super exciting, but it’s still an abstract concept for most people. If you’re just getting comfortable with pair-programming using an AI assistant like GitHub Copilot, you may be wondering how it would look like to collaborate with multiple agents as part of your daily work?
My initial thoughts on the newly launched Microsoft Foundry
I’ve always loved the few days directly before/after the end-of-year holidays, as a quiet time to deep dive on new tech and announcements from recent months. For me this year that was Microsoft Foundry - the newly launched platform replacing Azure AI Foundry and consolidating all of Microsoft’s pro-code related AI developments from the last year. It was launched at Ignite in late November, and I finally had time this week to get to know the new portal and related features.
An example of using the new GitHub Copilot CLI to re-create the GitHub.com Coding and Reviewer Agents within the GitHub Enterprise Server platform
In my article on Six Agentic Dev fundamentals, I mentioned that GitHub Copilot CLI unlocks new use cases for scheduled or event-driven agent tasks. Let’s explore that more with a real implementation: by re-creating GitHub’s Coding and Reviewer Agents to work within a GitHub Enterprise Server environment.
A framework I’ve used with businesses to assess where they’re at on agentic development fundamentals, along with links to learn more about each technique.
Agentic development (the newest form of AI-assisted software development) is evolving rapidly, and with it comes a flood of new concepts. For many developers, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by advanced demos and articles. Here’s a framework I’ve used with businesses lately to assess where they’re at on agentic development fundamentals specifically, along with links to learn more about each one. Where do you sit in your company?
How I used GitHub Spark and Copilot Agents to turn a weekend idea into a launch-ready app in just days
A few weekends ago, my wife Shabnam Sarjami and I put our AI Agents knowledge to use on a personal project: how to improve attendee experience at Latin dance festivals (which we attend regularly). Event programs for these festivals aren’t the best (low-res images packed with lots of info and posted direct to social media), and with GitHub Spark and Coding Agent just launched we wanted to see if we could rapidly prototype a better one!
Comparing vibe coding and agentic development with the 6 levels of autonomous driving
If you’re in my network you may have been flooded with posts about ‘Vibe Coding’ lately, and how it’ll either revolutionize or ruin software development.
A quick intro to the Azure Developer CLI, and how it helps you do single-command deploys of your app into Azure
It’s 2025 and us developers really shouldn’t be writing deployment scripts or pipelines from scratch, but many people I meet don’t realize how much Microsoft can help in this area. It’s true that Copilot gets much of the attention when it comes to boosting productivity on this (and it is still a great way to avoid hand coding any type of script), but it’s not the only way to get results fast.
