It’s Saturday morning, I’m coding,as usual, in Java, but today something is different.

GitHub announced agent-mode for Copilot, and I am eager to try it out. One problem though, it’s not yet available with the IntelliJ plugin. Thus I sit here with VSC insiders build and wonder why all my refactoring shortcuts are not working, or where various other menu items disappeared to.

But, as it turns out, I don’t actually need them today. I’ve seen Copilot write code before, in edit mode.

But today, in agent mode, it doesn’t stop there. It runs tests, notices compilation errors and fixes them. It then runs the tests again and fixes any failures.

Just wow.

For now, it’s more the impression of the agent doing things on it’s own, not so much the quality of the code. But even there I think it can get better if I’d provide more guidance in my initial prompt.

Let’s see where this journey goes.