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Demonstrates GitHub Spark, an AI-native micro-app platform from GitHub Next that lets anyone build, use, and share personalized apps through natural language—without writing code or managing deployments. The video creates a city travel log app that captures reviews with GPS coordinates, plots destinations on a map, generates AI city suggestions based on existing ratings, and uses the variant generator to explore alternate UI directions from an ambiguous prompt. It also covers the built-in theme editor, state management, and revision history for iterating on app design.

GitHub Next launched the technical preview for GitHub Copilot Workspace in April 2024. Since then, we’ve been listening to the community, learning, and have some tips to share on how to get the most out of it!

Demonstrates the o1-preview reasoning model integrated into GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code, available to approved users via the chat model picker alongside GPT-4o and o1 mini. The video builds a JavaScript maze generator that supports keyboard navigation, BFS and DFS solving algorithms, and visual path rendering—using o1-preview's extended internal reasoning to satisfy complex multi-requirement prompts in fewer iterations than standard models.

As AI continues to reshape the way businesses innovate, the conversation shifts beyond the mere integration of new technology. Chris emphasizes that adopting AI-powered software development is a significant cultural shift, requiring more than just technical tools. It demands a top-down approach, where leadership support and change management are critical to fostering a progressive culture within development teams.

Introduces GitHub Models on the GitHub Marketplace, a curated playground for exploring and comparing a range of top AI models using entitlements tied to your GitHub account. The video demos GPT-4o and phi-3 mini instruct side-by-side, shows how to tune system prompts and temperature in the interactive playground, and demonstrates calling model APIs from GitHub Codespaces and the GitHub CLI—all without requiring separate API keys or service sign-ups.

Introduces GitHub's Private Mirrors App, a self-hosted or GitHub-managed tool that helps organizations contribute to open source projects while managing compliance, legal, and security risk. The app creates private mirrors mapped to public forks, enabling teams to run CI/CD checks and policy enforcement before syncing changes back to the public fork for upstream contribution. The video demonstrates forking an upstream project, configuring multiple team mirrors, and integrating with an Enterprise Managed Users organization.

AI coding tools are not just for the production of code, they accelerate existing processes, help developers learn and drive innovation

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AI-powered software is not just about integrating new tools

Ready to explore our blueprint for AI-powered development? Join us to network with local tech leaders and learn the key to addressing tech debt, modernizing the software development lifecycle, and transforming your enterprise.