58 - Beyond Copilot: The Agentic Software Development Lifecycle with Esteban Garcia

AI can already write code for us - but the biggest change may be everything happening around the actual coding.

Jakob Ehn and Johan Nordberg talk to Esteban Garcia, who leads GitHub AI Solutions at Lantern, about Azure DevOps vs GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Agentic Workflows, and how specialized AI agents could reshape the entire software development lifecycle - from requirements and planning to testing, documentation and code.

We also discuss why more lines of code is a terrible productivity metric, how AI can help us understand legacy systems, and why model selection, token usage and AI FinOps are becoming increasingly important as AI-powered development scales.

Links:

• GitHub Agentic Workflows
• Custom agents in GitHub Copilot
• GitHub Copilot usage-based billing