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We benchmarked the GitHub Copilot agentic harness against the harnesses that ship leading models natively. Holding the model and task fixed across SWE-bench Verified, SWE-bench Pro, SkillsBench, TerminalBench, and Win-Hill, the results were clear: ✅ Task resolution on par with model-vendor harnesses ✅ Fewer tokens across most configurations 💡 A key learning: With GitHub Copilot supporting more than 20 models, you're free to pick efficiency or peak quality per task. Explore the data ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eq_RnAPj

Using the /impeccable skill built into the GitHub Copilot app, Cassidy Williams gave her PocketCal app a design refresh! ✨ Enable in Settings > Experimental to try it out. https://lnkd.in/eB9k6Jbj

Copilot code review now supports AGENTS .md files. 💡 Here's how to customize for more context-aware reviews. ▶️

The story around AI used to be about generating more. For many neurodivergent professionals, the bigger benefit is offloading invisible labor: remembering what you promised, the dozen tabs open in your brain, the thread you meant to reply to. Senior director Ashley Willis shares why she calls automations in the GitHub Copilot app an accessibility tool. ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eZhsZ9mp

GitHub Universe: Not your average tech event. Come for the sessions, stay for the joy (and donuts). Join us IRL this year, you still have the chance to get our Super Early Bird pricing until July 8. Get your ticket 👇 https://lnkd.in/e5pAMVfE

GitHub has joined a coalition with Black Forest Labs, Hugging Face, and Mozilla to support targeted fixes to the California AI Transparency Act (SB 942, as amended by SB 1000). As drafted, the bill would require licensors to revoke licenses if downstream users remove content provenance functionality. This creates a fundamental incompatibility with the core tenets of open source licensing: open source licenses are designed to be perpetual and irrevocable. Requiring revocation is inconsistent with widely used licenses and risks introducing uncertainty for developers building and collaborating across projects. There is a path forward that can achieve the Act’s intent without harming the open source community. Developers who modify and deploy systems are already directly covered, and enforcement mechanisms remain in place. We’re recommending a balanced approach to align with the EU AI Act Transparency Code of Practice, which recognizes the distinct nature of the open source ecosystem and acknowledges that notifying downstream users of best practices in documentation is sufficient. Our coalition letter outlines targeted amendments to address this issue and preserve collaborative open source development. With a limited window to act, I encourage others working in this space to take a look and share your perspective. https://lnkd.in/eGbV92Kt

One Hubber shares his story about transitioning while working at GitHub. https://lnkd.in/eUkbZ-DV

Open Source Friday dives into Aspire, a code-first orchestration and observability layer for distributed apps, with guests Maddy Montaquila and David Fowler. Aspire lets you define services, frontends, databases, queues, caches, containers, and cloud dependencies in one shared app model. You can run the full system with one command and troubleshoot with a unified toolchain, instead of bouncing between terminals, configs, and dashboards.

To improve accessibility in open source, we've worked through programs, partnerships, and open tooling built with real projects and communities. Learn more about what we've done, and what you can do to help make open source more inclusive. https://lnkd.in/eb_EyBUF