In 2021, Copilot helped me finish lines of code. By 2024, I was chatting with it. In 2025, Context Engineering was the breakthrough. Now in 2026, I don't just talk to AI — I delegate to it.
Copilot CLI, Skills, agentic workflows, new models — I've gone from asking for help to handing over entire tasks, from scaffolding projects to opening pull requests, all in natural language. And it's not just me: at GitHub, our own product teams are using these same capabilities to ship faster and rethink how software gets built.
The shift goes beyond developers. Product managers, SREs, DevOps engineers — they're all becoming builders. It's no longer about writing code, it's about expressing intent.
In this talk, I'll show you what changed between 2025 and 2026, and how it turned me from a developer with a great assistant into a complete builder.
Note: In this session I will focus on the new features and primitives that have change my life, and GitHub's developers life too. Obviously the CLI, SDK, Agentic Workflows, .. is a big change, but also some features that we are launching in few weeks (I am not allowed to talk about it yet), that is helping, developers but also people in Product Management, Marketing, ... (The presentation will be a mixt of feature introductions, demonstration and stories from our team.
