Pamela Fox shares a framework for parallelizing development with GitHub Copilot agents
lee_stott · x · 2026-09-24
Pamela Fox (Microsoft/GitHub) published her WeAreDevs Day 1 slides on parallelizing software development with GitHub Copilot, plus a follow-up Day 2 workshop on Copilot + MCP + Skills.
Key idea: before AI coding, one active feature was the limit; now developers act as "engineering managers for agents." She lays out three dimensions of parallelization:
- Environment: local session (direct control), parallel session UI (VS Code Agents window / Copilot app to observe and steer many), or cloud execution (Copilot cloud agents with isolated compute per task)
- Timing: run now, lightly supervised, on an event, or while you are away
- Ownership: developer, one agent, independent agents, or subagents
Different Copilot surfaces map to different levels of parallelism, from editing alongside Copilot in VS Code to Copilot CLI in the terminal to fully cloud-based agents.
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