GitHub Next investigates the future of software development.

We are a team of researchers and engineers at GitHub, exploring things beyond the adjacent possible. We prototype tools and technologies that will change our craft. We identify new approaches to building healthy, productive software engineering teams.

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A black-and-white three-panel comic in a minimalist zine style showing the evolution of tooling and industrial scale. In the first panel, a small cat-like worker character uses a chainsaw to cut a log in a forest. In the second panel, the character operates a stationary sawmill cutting large timber beams with industrial machinery. In the third panel, the character, now wearing a hard hat, stands inside a massive automated lumber mill with conveyor belts, robotic arms, and full-scale production lines processing stacks of wood. Clean line art, no text, monochrome aesthetic.
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Peli de Halleux

Agents are power tools

A practical mental model for agents, workflows, and human-machine systems in agentic engineering.

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Alex Gorischek

Agency is the New Resilience

Agents can power robust workflows by intelligently reacting to unexpected conditions, creating a new form of flexible resilience.

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Idan Gazit

New site, who dis?

Ok, it’s not really a new site. But it’s an important refresh!

Glossy finished products are fun, but the real meat is hiding in the sketchbooks. Makers love to see the raw ideas, the struggle to make it work, and the tradeoffs made in service to shipping. Previously, we only had project pages, but we didn’t have a place to showcase those intermediate artifacts of our work.

Our new site makes it easy for any member of Next to share a learning, a screenshot, a thought, or a full-blown essay. It could be a tiny demo, or an update to an existing project. Working for the public good — and largely in the open — is one of the key perks we enjoy at Next. We’re looking forward to sharing more of our behind the scenes with you, without needing to fit everything into a tweet-shaped chunk of content.

Under the hood, we also wanted to transition to a static site framework like Astro for ease of maintenance. Shoutout to the Astro folks, it’s so good.

Enjoy the new site, we’re excited to share more with you!

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Krzysztof Cieślak

Bringing the power of AI into your application

A practical introduction to integrating large language models into applications, covering prompt crafting, chaining AI queries, and UX considerations for building AI-powered tools. Also addresses how to measure the impact of AI changes and evaluate whether AI integration is right for a given application.

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KTH Royal Institute of Technology main building in Stockholm
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Albert Ziegler

Crafting Code Suggestions using Large Language Models

An exploration of why large language models for code completion present unique engineering challenges — developers don’t write code linearly, so models must bridge the gap between predictive capability and real-world usefulness. Covers prompt engineering strategies including content reordering and codebase linearization, using GitHub Copilot as a case study.

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