GitHub COO Kyle Daigle on Copilot, agents, and the developer era
GitHub COO Kyle Daigle joins the Latent Space podcast to discuss how AI agents are reshaping GitHub's internal workflows, Copilot's evolution beyond code completion, and his own use of agents in leadership work.
Score breakdown
The episode offers a firsthand account from GitHub's COO of how AI agents are changing not just developer tooling but internal leadership workflows and company operations at one of the world's largest developer platforms.
- 01Kyle Daigle has been at GitHub for 13 years and holds an expanded role as both COO of GitHub and CMO of Developer for Microsoft.
- 02The episode was recorded in conjunction with Microsoft Build.
- 03Daigle describes running '15 agents on Saturday' as part of his personal AI workflow.
Recorded in conjunction with Microsoft Build, this Latent Space episode features GitHub COO Kyle Daigle in conversation with swyx. Daigle, who has spent 13 years at GitHub and recently expanded his role to also serve as CMO of Developer for Microsoft, discusses how the AI agent era is creating new pressures and opportunities across GitHub's platform and internal operations.
Daigle also describes his personal AI workflows, including building an AI-generated executive presentation for CRO and CFO teams and using agents to synthesize company context before making decisions.
The conversation covers GitHub's approach to rolling out AI through existing workflows rather than forcing new tools, the shift from large "mega-skills" to small, atomic micro-skills, and how GitHub itself — including its history with webhooks, Actions, npm, Dependabot, and Semmle — is being stressed in new ways by the agent era. Daigle also describes his personal AI workflows, including building an AI-generated executive presentation for CRO and CFO teams and using agents to synthesize company context before making decisions. He reflects on how former developers who moved into leadership may hold a particular advantage in the current AI era, noting that the ability to spin up agents gives him back a feeling of creation he associates with hands-on coding.
Key facts
- 01Kyle Daigle has been at GitHub for 13 years and holds an expanded role as both COO of GitHub and CMO of Developer for Microsoft.
- 02The episode was recorded in conjunction with Microsoft Build.
- 03Daigle describes running '15 agents on Saturday' as part of his personal AI workflow.
- 04GitHub's internal AI stack includes WorkIQ, MCP, Slack, Teams, email, Copilot workflows, a new Copilot desktop app, CLI, and cloud agents.
- 05The conversation covers a shift from large 'mega-skills' to small, atomic micro-skills.
- 06Daigle built an AI-generated executive presentation for CRO and CFO teams as an example of agent-assisted leadership work.
- 07The episode touches on GitHub's history with webhooks, Actions, npm, Dependabot, and Semmle in the context of the agent era.
Topics
Summary and scoring are generated automatically from the original article. We always link back to the publisher and never republish images or paywalled content. Last processed Jun 9, 2026 · 17:05 UTC. How this works →