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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

952: VS Code, GitHub & Copilot - UNIVERSE 25 Announcements + Reactions

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Live from GitHub Universe, Wes, Scott, and CJ talk about the latest AI and developer tools from GitHub, including Agent HQ, Copilot integrations, and the new mission control for agents. They also share stories from the Syntax meetup, hack their conference badges, and debate AI’s role in coding. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 03:39 This year’s GitHub Universe badges were next-level 07:35 Keynote recap: GitHub Agents, Copilot, and Mission Control 18:21 Brought to you by Sentry.io 20:33 Plan Mode and the future of collaborative coding 23:40 Cursor’s new trick: firing off agents straight from Slack 25:32 Copilot Metrics Dashboard and agent analytics 27:53 Effortless MCP integration and custom agent workflows 31:35 Wrapping up GitHub Universe 2025 Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Syntax live from...

0:04.0

Where are we?

0:05.0

San Francisco, live from New York.

0:08.0

We are not live at all.

0:10.0

We're recording here at GitHub Universe 2025.

0:12.0

We heard last year was just pretty interesting, and it's nuts to see.

0:16.0

Like last year we're talking about, like, better co-ppilot, like tab completion and stuff like that.

0:22.5

And now it's just like, agents and all this stuff that C.J. hates.

0:28.9

We're going to go through a couple things here.

0:31.3

We're going to kind of rattle through all the announcements that they have and talk about that as to like,

0:36.3

are they catching up to cursor and all these things and what is the interesting stuff and how does it all work together. We're going to talk about our badges, which is really cool. I think possibly very, maybe even more interesting to some of the audience. And it's good. We had a meet up last night. Thanks to everybody who came out. That was a hoot. That was a hoot. Oh, yeah, that's great. Everybody, man, we had had a meetup last night thanks to everybody he came out that was a hoot

0:55.0

oh yeah that's great everybody man we had a big turnout last year for the meetup yeah and uh it was a

1:01.1

just like a great mix of the types of folks from all different companies and working on different

1:07.0

problems fans of the show and this year was just even better. We had a massive

1:12.7

table of free stuff. We had security guards and police officers coming up and being like,

1:18.7

can I get some of those stuff? Yeah, we had a check X for that post. A San Francisco cop driving around

1:22.9

the city with our hat on. Yes, yeah, our internet hat. Yeah. Um, yeah, props to Props to everyone who came out, that was always really fun having meetups and getting to chat with people. Because you get to hear the type of stuff people are working on, the problems that they're hitting, what they're learning. You don't necessarily hear that stuff every single day. We try to solicit it as much as we can, but just talking one-on-one with people.

1:45.0

And also, like... All night long. Talks one-on-one. There's a lot of devs who came from

1:49.5

companies that are not allowed to talk about stuff that they work on. And, like, they gave

1:55.9

us the scoop on some of that stuff. And it's always really interesting getting to hear from these, like, huge companies that use this tech, but they're not allowed to talk about it.

2:06.9

Huge companies that we cannot name.

2:08.7

Yeah.

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