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New comment by timrogers in "Blackholing My Email"

timrogers — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:57:54 +0000

It’s an incredible map - so many fun memories!

New comment by timrogers in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

timrogers — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:09:47 +0000

Tim from the Copilot coding agent team here. We've now disabled these tips in pull requests created by or touched by Copilot, so you won't see this happen again for future PRs.

We've been including product tips in PRs created by Copilot coding agent. The goal was to help developers learn new ways to use the agent in their workflow. But hearing the feedback here, and on reflection, this was the wrong judgement call. We won't do something like this again.

New comment by timrogers in "What AI coding costs you"

timrogers — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:16:09 +0000

> Reviewing AI output all day without the dopamine of creation is not a sustainable job description.

I agree that reducing engineers’ careers to code review will lead to burnout (amongst other problems).

But I think the reason we’re headed in this direction is precisely because creating with AI /can/ deliver “the dopamine of creation”.

It doesn’t deliver that hit for everyone - but it does for the half of engineers who are more excited about building new things than the act of coding.

Teams build more and ship faster because it’s so much easier to do that with AI - and it’s fun - and that leads to increased review load.

New comment by timrogers in "Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith"

timrogers — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:54:59 +0000

That would be the normal pattern. But you could certainly stop after the LLM picks the tool and provides the arguments, and not present the result back to the model.

GitHub Copilot now supports Agent Skills

timrogers — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:44:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-18-github-copilot-now-supports-agent-skills/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316761

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by timrogers in "What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? (2013)"

timrogers — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 02:59:38 +0000

The claim in the quote here is simply not true.

The travel agency is the one that collects your personal information - but it (unsurprisingly) immediately passes just about everything to the airline: name, date of birthday, phone number, email etc.

In general, the airline won’t get your payment details though.

New comment by timrogers in "Fossabot: AI code review for Dependabot/Renovate on breaking changes and impacts"

timrogers — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:09:46 +0000

GitHub PM here. We have tried this, but we weren't able to get results that we were satisfied with. Of course, you have to revisit these things regularly, as the models and wider state of the art are evolving so quickly!

Start and track Copilot coding agent tasks from Raycast

timrogers — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:37:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-08-28-start-and-track-copilot-coding-agent-tasks-from-raycast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056169

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by timrogers in "Gemini CLI GitHub Actions"

timrogers — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:45:01 +0000

Tim from the GitHub Copilot coding agent product team here!

@artdigital is on the money here. Our quick tip for beginners is to use `copilot-instructions.md` (which we can now generate for you <3), but for more serious use, we'd strongly recommend adding `copilot-setup-steps.yml`.

That gets you a deterministic setup - and for many teams, it'll be easy, as you can just copy and paste from existing Actions workflows.

New comment by timrogers in "Jules, our asynchronous coding agent"

timrogers — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:53:01 +0000

PM for GitHub Copilot coding agent here!

Our asynchronous coding agent can run Docker in its GitHub Actions-powered development environment - for example it could start a Dockerized web server.

You can learn more about the agent at https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/coding-agent/cod....

New comment by timrogers in "AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens"

timrogers — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 22:26:20 +0000

Interestingly, the title refers to citizens but the body only refers to residents:

> the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is operated only by personnel who are European Union (EU) residents located in the EU, subject to EU law.

New comment by timrogers in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

timrogers — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:59:28 +0000

The #5 contributor thing is a stat from a single repository where we’re building Copilot coding agent.

New comment by timrogers in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

timrogers — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:56:42 +0000

Humans are indeed in slots #1-4.

After hearing feedback from the community, we’re planning to share more on the GitHub Blog about how we’re using Copilot coding agent at GitHub. Watch this space!

New comment by timrogers in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

timrogers — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:56:34 +0000

At the moment, we're using Claude 3.7 Sonnet - but we're keeping our options open to experiment with other models and potentially bring in a model picker.

(Source: I'm on the product team for Copilot coding agent.)

New comment by timrogers in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

timrogers — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:55:14 +0000

Don't worry - this is 100% opt in. We've just added the ability to assign Copilot to an issue from `gh issue edit` and other similar commands.

(Source: I'm on the product team for Copilot coding agent.)

New comment by timrogers in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

timrogers — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:54:01 +0000

As we've built Copilot coding agent, we've put a lot of thought and work into our security story.

One of the things we've done here is to treat Copilot's commits like commits from a first-time contributor to an open source project.

When Copilot pushes changes, your GitHub Actions workflows won't run by default, and you'll have to click the "Approve and run workflows" button in the merge box.

That gives you the chance to run Copilot's code before it runs in Actions and has access to your secrets.

(Source: I'm on the product team for Copilot coding agent.)

New comment by timrogers in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

timrogers — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:52:39 +0000

Thanks for flagging this! That isn't a behavior I've seen before in testing, and I'd love to dig into it more to see what's happening.

Would you be able to drop me an email? My address is my HN login @github.com.

(I work on the product team for Copilot coding agent.)

New comment by timrogers in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

timrogers — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:50:10 +0000

At the moment, we're using Claude 3.7 Sonnet, but we're keeping our options open to change the model down the line, and potentially even to introduce a model picker like we have for Copilot Chat and Agent Mode.

New comment by timrogers in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

timrogers — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:49:29 +0000

The "1,000 pull requests contributed by Copilot" datapoint is specifically referring to Copilot coding agent over the past 2.5 months.

Pretty much every developer at GitHub is using Copilot in their day to work, so its influence touches virtually every code change we make ;)

New comment by timrogers in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

timrogers — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:45:52 +0000

But would you rather get paid to spend your time doing the interesting and enjoying work, or the mundane and boring stuff? ;) My hope is that agents like Copilot can help us burn down the tedious stuff and make more time for the big value adds.