Summary of Build by Hwang Minho
Microsoft Build 2025 Keynote: The Dawn of the Agentic Web Era and Developer Innovation
Microsoft Build 2025 kicked off with a keynote speech by CEO Satya Nadella. This event highlighted the integration of AI across all layers of the technology stack, offering new opportunities for developers and emphasizing a shift to a new paradigm called the "Agentic Web."
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Detailed summary of the keynote presentation:
❇️ Innovation in Developer Tools: Evolution and Open-Sourcing of GitHub Copilot
CEO Nadella defined the current phase as "the midpoint of another platform shift," aiming to empower developers to build apps and agents across all layers to benefit individuals and organizations.
- Developer tool usage: Visual Studio and its related products have over 50 million users, GitHub has 150 million users, and GitHub Copilot is used by more than 15 million developers.
- Visual Studio updates: Includes support for .NET 10, design-time live previews, Git tool improvements, a new debugger for cross-platform apps, and a shift to monthly stable releases.
- VS Code: Recently celebrated its 100th open release, introducing enhanced multi-window support and simplified staging views within the editor.
- Open-sourcing GitHub Copilot: As AI becomes central to coding, Microsoft announced the open-sourcing of Copilot within VS Code, integrating AI-powered features directly into the VS Code core.
- Copilot advancements: Expanded beyond simple code completion to include chat, multi-file editing, and now agent functionalities. Copilot can modernize apps, such as upgrading Java 8 to Java 21 or .NET 6 to .NET 9, and migrate on-premises apps to the cloud.
- Autonomous SRE Agent: Introduced an SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) agent capable of automatically categorizing live site issues like memory leaks, identifying root causes, mitigating problems, and recording incident management reports in GitHub Issues.
- Full Coding Agent within GitHub: Announced a complete coding agent within GitHub that elevates Copilot from a pair programmer to a peer programmer, autonomously handling tasks like bug fixes, adding new features, and maintaining code. This feature is now available to all users. CEO Nadella demonstrated assigning a bug from GitHub Issues to Copilot.
- Agent security and ecosystem: Agents operate within their own branches, use only developer-configured MCP servers, and allow other agents to perform code reviews to ensure security. Features to build diverse agent ecosystems, such as SRE, SUI, and code review agents, are also available to partners.
❇️ Collaboration with OpenAI: Codex Agents and the Future of AI Models
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman participated virtually to discuss the vision for coding agents and the roadmap for AI models.
- Vision for Codex Agents: Explained the evolution of agents into true virtual team members capable of task delegation, bug fixing, and implementing new features, emphasizing genuine software engineering task delegation.
- AI Model Roadmap: Predicted that models will become smarter, easier to use, more reliable, and enhanced with features like multimodality, tool usage, and integration.
- Advice for building agent apps: Recommended preparing for the rapid pace of model performance changes and actively adopting new tools and workflows.
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Microsoft's Two Major Events
May Build (19th–22nd)
November Ignite
It's highly recommended to watch these if possible. This helps filter out the "snake oil sellers" (people who claim something they made up or coined without any sources).
Note: I'm also a bit of a knowledge peddler, but if I ever claim something as mine without a source, feel free to hit me with a switch 🤣🤣
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