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Running five coding agents at once in the GitHub Copilot app

GitHub’s new Copilot desktop app runs multiple coding agents in parallel, each session isolated in its own git worktree, and is already included in Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business and Enterprise subscriptions. Getting value from it depends less on prompting than on task selection, worktree hygiene, supervision cadence and engineered review capacity, because five agents can open pull requests faster than one reviewer can read them.

June 5, 2026181 viewsAI & Machine Learning

Claude Opus 4.8: the effort dial, fast mode and token math

Claude Opus 4.8 arrives at unchanged pricing with an effort control on all plans, a fast mode at a third of the previous fast-inference cost, and a Messages API change that lets system entries sit inside the messages array so mid-task instruction updates no longer invalidate the prompt cache. Worked token math shows cache hit rate remains the biggest cost lever, and a four-question framework matches effort, speed and fan-out to each workload.

May 29, 2026137 viewsAI & Machine Learning

Computer-using agents go GA in Copilot Studio: cost vs RPA

Microsoft's 26 May Copilot Studio update takes computer-using agents to general availability, ships a redesigned workflows designer with agent nodes, and moves A2A communication and remote MCP support to GA. CUA runs bill at 5 credits per agent action, which makes adaptive UI agents cheaper than classic RPA at modest volumes and costlier at high, steady ones.

May 27, 2026133 viewsAI & Machine Learning

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7 at I/O 2026

Google shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash on day one of I/O 2026, the third frontier agentic coding model in five weeks after Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5, alongside a $100/month developer tier and the Antigravity 2.0 agent platform. For Azure-first teams the practical response is a reusable evaluation harness and a documented cost comparison for renewal leverage, not a migration.

May 20, 2026127 viewsAI & Machine Learning