✨ Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted development—and it's now generally available in the Visual Studio June update. It builds a plan, executes it, adapts along the way, and loops through tasks until completion. Read more about it here: #VisualStudio #Copilot

This seems to take the brakes off of AI and officially moves it from the co-pilot seat to the pilot seat. Impressive, yes, but I have concerns. For one, AI is not very good at big picture things, e.g. architectural considerations or design decisions. I think a product team trying to lean on this will eventually end up with a big spaghetti dinner on their hands and a human will have to unravel it all, perhaps negating the cost-savings that were up-front. You don't want to get to PROD to find out you have a major performance issue or architectural concern, or really not even understanding what you're putting into PROD. I'm certainly a big fan of using AI to help speed up my daily work, I use it every day. I'm precise about the context I provide it and spend a lot of time reviewing and evaluating the code provided. For small asks it's great. For helping me remember a syntax for paradigm that may have slipped my mind, it's great. But for semi-complex scenarios, it makes a lot of mistakes. Even in this demo video here, it writes a whole bunch of code which doesn't even compile, and it has to figure out what it did wrong. So yeah, I'm skeptical... but of course I will try it in a demo setting. What is your initial read on agent mode @IAmTimCorey?

Hey, checking with you. My VS STUDIO looks different than yours. Concerned if I should update or add something. Also, I am on the pro+ plan and I do not see opus 4.0. Can you help please

Imagine if @MicrosoftVisualStudio could automatically generate 3D games using Unity or C++.

First bring back the empty API template, which was removed.

Does it still randomly just delete all the code?

@threadreaderapp please compile

Absolutely hopeless so far. Half completions, randomly deletes code, apply doesn't work and has no architectural awareness. Doesn't seem to have any memory of what it has just suggested and builds spaghetti code on top of spaghetti code. A long way to go...