GitHub Copilot Usage Metrics Are Becoming Cost Accounting
Copilot's expanded app metrics are useful, but teams should measure outcomes and cost rather than celebrate activity alone.
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wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Hotel rooms turn switching off the lights into a puzzle that nobody asked to solve before bed.
Programming
MCP’s stateless core removes deployment plumbing that should never have been the interesting part of an agent tool.
Software Engineer
Coding-agent governance only works when the same rules follow developers across every client and cloud task.
Science
Euclid has found 31 exceptionally old quasars, including two from the universe’s first 670 million years, and the scale is hard to picture.
Programming
CloudFormation Express mode can cut deployment waits sharply, but configuration complete is not the same as ready for traffic.
Programming, Software Engineer
.NET 8 and .NET 9 both reach end of support on November 10, so teams on either runtime should plan the move to .NET 10 now.
AI, Programming
CodeQL 2.26 can trace untrusted values into JavaScript and TypeScript system prompts, turning one AI security risk into something code review can see.
Software Engineer
GitHub Models closes on July 30, with brownouts first, so this is a migration deadline rather than a product update to read later.
PHP, Programming
PHP 8.6 Alpha 1 is not for production, but it is exactly when framework, library, and platform teams should begin compatibility testing.