Last week, OpenAI announced a cloud based software engineering agent called Codex that can perform multiple software engineering tasks in parallel. Now, Microsoft GitHub is announcing a competitor to Codex. At Build 2025, GitHub announced the GitHub Copilot coding agent, which can implement a task or issue in the background with GitHub Actions. The GitHub Copilot coding agent is the evolution of Project Padawan, which was introduced earlier this year. Developers can assign a GitHub issue to the...
