Copilot Workspace is GitHub's take on AI-powered software engineering

GitHub's new Copilot Workspace brings AI-powered assistive software engineering tools front and center.

Is the future of software development an AI-powered IDE? GitHub's floating the idea. At its annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco on Monday, GitHub announced Copilot Workspace, a dev environment that taps what GitHub describes as "Copilot-powered agents" to help developers brainstorm, plan, build, test and run code in natural language. Jonathan Carter, head of GitHub Next, GitHub's software R&D team, pitches Workspace as somewhat of an evolution of GitHub's AI-powered coding assista