Coding assistants

Simon Willison describes how his view of vibe coding and agentic engineering has begun to converge in his own work, which he calls a disturbing realization. He distinguishes vibe coding, where the person does not look at the code and it is suited to personal tools, from agentic engineering, where a professional engineer uses AI tools while maintaining quality, security and operational standards. He admits he no longer reviews every line of code his coding agents write, even for production systems, and raises the question of whether that is responsible.

Xbox is winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop developing Copilot on console, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The decision came alongside a reorganization of the Xbox platform team that added executives from Microsoft's CoreAI team to the Xbox side of the company.

Microsoft says IT administrators can now uninstall the Microsoft Copilot app from enterprise Windows devices using the RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp policy setting, available as a Policy CSP and Group Policy after the April 2026 Patch Tuesday updates. The policy applies only to Windows 11 25H2 devices where both Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot are installed, the user did not install the Microsoft Copilot app, and it has not been launched in 28 days.

GitHub has announced changes to Copilot Individual plans that tighten usage limits, pause signups for individual plans, and restrict Claude Opus 4.7 to the $39/month Pro+ plan while dropping the previous Opus models. The changes add token-based usage limits per session and per week, replacing the per-request charging model that the author says made agentic requests erode GitHub's margins. The author notes the announcement does not clearly say which of the many Copilot-branded products are affected, though the linked plans page suggests Copilot CLI, the Copilot cloud agent, code review, and the IDE features in VS Code, Zed and JetBrains.

Microsoft is reportedly testing ways to integrate OpenClaw-style features into its Copilot AI assistant, according to The Information. The goal is to let Microsoft 365 Copilot run autonomously around the clock while completing tasks for users. Omar Shahine, Microsoft's corporate vice president, confirmed the company is exploring OpenClaw-like technologies in an enterprise context.

Microsoft has started removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps, as part of a plan to reduce what it calls unnecessary Copilot entry points. The latest Windows Insider build of Notepad replaces its Copilot button with a writing tools menu, and the Snipping Tool no longer shows a Copilot button when capturing an area. The underlying AI features are expected to remain.

Microsoft executive Judson Althoff told employees that sales of the Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on have gained traction after criticism of low adoption. Microsoft reported 15 million seats in January, representing 3% of standard bundle seats, and its stock fell 23% in the first quarter. Althoff said the company revamped its sales strategy after analyst feedback and was confident in its June quarter targets.

Microsoft's blog post discusses the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications (2026), which outlines risks for autonomous systems that act across workflows using real identities, data access and tools. The post explores the list's key findings and highlights practical mitigations grounded in Agent 365 and foundational capabilities in Microsoft Copilot Studio. Microsoft AI Red Team members helped review the list before publication.

Microsoft launched Copilot Health, letting users connect medical records and ask health questions inside its Copilot app, while Amazon widened access to its LLM-based Health AI tool. These launches join ChatGPT Health from OpenAI and Anthropic's Claude, which can read health records when permitted. Researchers argue these tools need rigorous evaluation by independent experts before wide release.

CrowdStrike announced new Falcon platform capabilities that extend AI detection and response (AIDR) to endpoints, SaaS and cloud environments. On endpoints, Falcon AIDR will extend runtime threat detection beyond the browser to desktop AI applications such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Cursor, and is currently in pre-beta with general availability planned for Q2.