Software Engineering

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GitHub shipped a tight sequence of March 2026 Copilot updates around memory, planning, review instructions, and task decomposition. Together they look less like feature polish and more like an agentic development stack.

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GitHub’s March 10, 2026 Copilot SDK push reframes Copilot as an embedded execution runtime for developer tools, not just an assistant inside GitHub surfaces.

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Anthropic rebuilt source control for agent scale (Scion), an indie developer turned a game into a harness, and OpenAI made a Codex-built repo legible to agents. Three cases orders of magnitude apart reach one conclusion: once code is cheap, the bottleneck is whether agents can query, reproduce, measure, and be stopped by their environment. This post maps the mechanisms, weighs the objections and the Mononoke attribution dispute, and gives an investment order by scale plus a list of traps.

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Harvard data across 700+ firms: coding agents lift lines of code about 30% and review time about 49%, while Issue resolution barely moves. Read alongside QGIS banning AI contributions, Torvalds using Claude Code, and Hickey, Spinellis, and a Berkeley experiment on cognitive offloading, it adds up to a framework for measuring agent output.