Realtime multiplayer, automation, and you! — Idan Gazit, GitHub
Aug 8, 2026 · 21:41
Idan Gazit of GitHub Next presents two prototypes for the future of software development: agentic workflows, which turn plain-English instructions into automated, guardrailed maintenance tasks, and ACE, a cloud-based platform for real-time multiplayer coding. He shows how an agentic workflow upgraded his site from Astro 5 to Astro 7, reading changelogs, fixing breaking changes, verifying the build, and opening exactly one pull request, with permissions, tools, networks, and safe outputs declared in YAML front matter rather than prompts, since prompts can be prompt-injected and are not real guardrails. Secrets stay outside the agent's jail, and agents may "do nothing" to avoid noise. ACE runs sessions in cloud microVMs, looks like Slack, and lets teams edit a shared plan document together before telling the AI to "make the document true." He closes with a study of about 100 developers over thousands of hours showing typing is only about 5% of the job, so AI must help with the other 95%.
