Kilo launches AI-powered Slack bot that ships code from a chat message

Kilo Code, an open-source AI coding startup backed by GitLab cofounder Sid Sijbrandij, launched Kilo for Slack to turn Slack threads into code changes and GitHub pull requests using cloud agents and a ...
Ars Technica

Including non-code into Pull Request code reviews

My team uses Git (via BitBucket if it matters) and do code reviews on pull requests. The idea came up that some pull requests involve non-code items (most commonly SQL Schema or Store Procedure ...
Visual Studio Magazine

New Agents Panel Brings Copilot Coding Tasks to Visual Studio and VS Code

GitHub has expanded its Copilot coding agent with a new agents panel, giving Visual Studio and VS Code users a centralized way to launch and track AI-driven coding tasks directly alongside their ...
The Next Web

GitHub launches ‘draft’ pull requests to let developers discuss code before deploying

GitHub has added a new feature to pull requests, allowing developers to mark their requests as a draft. Marking a request as a draft allows the developer to highlight to other collaborators that their ...
ZDNet

Microsoft acquires Pull Panda for code-review collaboration

Microsoft has acquired GitHub tool vendor Pull Panda for an undisclosed amount, the company announced on June 17. Microsoft plans to use Pull Panda's technology to improve code-review workflows on ...