Microsoft is dogfooding AI dev tools’ future

Last week, I was in Seattle and stopped by at Microsoft’s annual developer conference, BUILD. I spent a bunch of time with GitHub CEO, Thomas Dohmke, interviewed Scott Guthrie, who leads Microsoft’s Cloud+AI group, and chatted with Jay Parikh, who heads up a new org called CoreAI. Interviews with Thomas and Scott will be published as podcasts soon. I also talked extensively with developers at BUILD, and with engineering leaders at tech companies in the city. Today’s issue is a roundup of everything I heard and learned. We cover: AI, AI, AI. It’s all about artificial intelligence at Microsoft – to the point where some attendees at BUILD were tired of hearing about it! Copilot as “peer programmer.” Many AI dev tools startups are building replacements for software engineers, but Microsoft is doing the opposite. Copilot is positioned to keep developers in charge, while increasing productivity. AI agents for day-to-day work. Microsoft showed off a series of demos of Copilot opening PRs, tak

Last week, I was in Seattle and stopped by at Microsoft’s annual developer conference, BUILD. I spent a bunch of time with GitHub CEO, Thomas Dohmke, interviewed Scott Guthrie, who leads Microsoft’s Cloud+AI group, and chatted with Jay Parikh, who heads up a new org called CoreAI. Interviews with Thomas and Scott will be published as podcasts soon. I also talked extensively with developers at BUILD, and with engineering leaders at tech companies in the city. Today’s issue is a roundup of everything I heard and learned. We cover: AI, AI, AI. It’s all about artificial intelligence at Microsoft –