Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide to agentic engineering

GitHub reports over 1.2 billion commits in one week this October, more than 400% above a year earlier, while a Faros AI study found pull requests spent 441% longer in review as teams moved from low to high AI adoption. The post outlines an agentic engineering workflow across Plan, Build, Verify, and Observe, describing Copilot features such as Plan Mode, cloud sandboxes, session continuity, stacked pull requests, Copilot code review, Agentic Autofix, and Agent Merge. It advises starting with one frustrating piece of work and putting an agent on it before expanding across the process.