{"id":214291,"date":"2025-05-19T14:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/microsoft-introduces-github-ai-agent-that-can-code-for-you"},"modified":"2025-05-19T14:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:20:04","slug":"microsoft-introduces-github-ai-agent-that-can-code-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/microsoft-introduces-github-ai-agent-that-can-code-for-you","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft introduces GitHub AI agent that can code for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-introduces-github-ai-agent-that-can-code-for-you.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GitHub Copilot assistant, which recently gained an agent mode feature to help it compete with Cursor and Windsurf, now has over 15 million users, four times more than a year earlier, Microsoft CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/04\/29\/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html\">Satya Nadella<\/a> told analysts on a conference call earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>A free Copilot tier for individuals provides limited access.<\/p>\n<p>The new coding agent won\u2019t be free, though. It will be available to developers with Copilot Pro+ subscriptions and organizations that subscribe to the Copilot Enterprise service tier, GitHub said. It\u2019s available in preview, meaning that GitHub will take early user feedback, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GitHub Copilot assistant, which recently gained an agent mode feature to help it compete with Cursor and Windsurf, now has over 15 million users, four times more than a year earlier, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told analysts on a conference call earlier this month. A free Copilot tier for individuals provides limited access. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}