Craig Presti

Engineering Manager, AI Incubation at Microsoft | Building some SaaS on the side🏄‍♂️

[Evan Boyle @_Evan_Boyle]

If you've been wondering what I've been up to, the team and I have been cooking up something new.

A new agent-native development environment deeply integrated with the GitHub graph. Not just for writing code, but all of the meta-work as well.

[GitHub @github]

Cooking up something new 🧑‍🍳

Join the waitlist for early access to technical preview of the GitHub Copilot app 👇
https://t.co/ODODKdvzOA

[Evan Boyle @_Evan_Boyle]

Keep your Copilot CLI sessions running 24/7 with /keep-alive ♾

[Tiago Botelho @tiagonbotelho]

We've just shipped /keep-alive on the Copilot CLI under /experimental.

The agent can now continue working without your laptop going to sleep halfway through a task.

Try it out, and give us your feedback ☕️

[Craig Presti @craigomatic]

@IsForAt @matvelloso @panos_panay For what it’s worth Duo 2 was very good and its screens were nicer to look at than the iPhone 16 plus I reluctantly bought when the charge port on the Duo 2 became unreliable.

Using both screens at ~90 degree angle was my favourite way to read

[Kyle Daigle @kdaigle]

Dear developers at work,

GitHub Copilot CLI is generally available with /plan, /plugin, /resume, /review, /yolo, /models, multi-model in single request autopilot, custom agents, experimental features, and much more.

Love,
GitHub🌹

https://t.co/BAX7IT37nm

[Marc-André Moreau @awakecoding]

While everyone's talking about Claude Code Max $200/month subscriptions, there's GitHub Copilot Pro+ which only costs $39/month with *1500 premium requests included*. I swear what I'm doing with it costs a *LOT* more than $39 after burning $120 in 24 hours with Cursor

[GitHub @github]

The GitHub Copilot SDK is here 🙌

You can take the same Copilot agentic core that powers GitHub Copilot CLI and embed it in any application, with just a few lines of code.
https://t.co/2XcdaqWdMT

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[Burke Holland @burkeholland]

If I could offer one tip to improve your prompting abilities, it's that you read these prompt guides front to back whenever a new model drops.

You'll be astonished at how much better your experience is when you understand these model quirks.

https://t.co/KNkUZRMpMN

[James Montemagno @JamesMontemagno]

Do you love @dotnet, do you love @visualstudio, do you love @code?

The .NET team is hiring a Principal PM to help guide the direction of these amazing tools and infuse them with AI productivity for developers.

Check it out: https://t.co/vma3kBdcqj

#dotnet #visualstudio

[Craig Presti @craigomatic]

@bwatson The workflow I like assumes GitHub as repo

1. Open issue, assign to copilot
2. Copilot opens PR, create Codespace on that branch
3. Modify as needed with the coding agent inside the Codespace
4. Copilot review/human review
5. Ship it

I usually do several in parallel. $39/m

[GitHub Changelog @GHchangelog]

GitHub Copilot coding agent now uses one premium request per session https://t.co/CZmHXe8EBh

[Craig Presti @craigomatic]

@Nowooski @sdamico Lots of these being bought in Australia, although BYD shark pictured above is not fully electric

[Andrew @AndrewP29700248]

Suggest taking a look at South Australia’s leadership / policy process there, Kimbal. Your brother help start that by building a giga factory there during a time of a mild energy crisis there. 70% of their energy is now wind and solar. Collaboration is always the fastest road to positive outcomes.

[Craig Presti @craigomatic]

Very underrated IMO

[GitHub @github]

Heard about the new GitHub Copilot coding agent? 👀 Here's how it can free you up to focus on more creative and high-impact tasks. ⬇️
https://t.co/5goIULUyXb

[Craig Presti @craigomatic]

@bwatson It aligns with iOS behaviour and is super annoying, but you get used to it (I recently switched from old android phone to new iPhone)

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

https://t.co/gLeHoXau12 - focused on tech research
https://t.co/Jdt5QyFJSq - focused on social sciences (psych, sociology, etc)
https://t.co/ZSGIbi1hMF - research coordinator
https://t.co/tGYWD4T0zB - focused on economics

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

Today we’ve made Think Deeper free and available for all users of Copilot.

This now gives everyone access to OpenAI’s world class o1 reasoning model in Copilot, everywhere at no cost.

I urge you to give it a try. It’s truly magical. Think Deeper helps you:

[Microsoft Copilot @Copilot]

Well, train my model and call me Sally — Apple recognized my new features and experience for App of the Day 🎉 https://t.co/8HlRl5DWHP