How humans and Copilot agents split the work to build a GitHub Copilot beginner course
DanWahlin · x · 2026-10-13
Dan Wahlin breaks down how his team built the new GitHub Copilot app for Beginners course: humans owned ideas, teaching strategy, quality bar and final calls, while the Copilot app/CLI plus custom skills handled scaffolding, reviews, images/screenshots and grunt work. His takeaway — agents are great at doing the work, but humans still decide what good looks like.
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