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Piloting agents in GitHub Copilot - Christopher Harrison, Microsoft

Jul 26, 2025 · 59:07

Christopher Harrison (Microsoft) demonstrates GitHub Copilot's agent capabilities for AI Engineers, arguing context is key to effective pair programming. He explains Copilot's modes—completion, chat, edit, local agent, and coding agent—and how Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables access to external tools like databases. Harrison shows how Copilot-instructions.md files provide project-specific guidance, and how coding agent runs within ephemeral GitHub Actions environments with strict security (no external access, only write to its own branch). He emphasizes that AI doesn't change DevOps fundamentals: tests still run locally and via PR workflows, and code review remains essential. The lab covers assigning issues to Copilot, configuring MCP servers, and using .instructions files for reusable patterns, with a repeat session at 3:30 PM.

[Full Workshop] How to add secure code interpreting in your AI app: Vasek Mlejnsky

Feb 6, 2025 · 1:48:16

Vasek Mlejnsky, CEO of E2B, demonstrates how to add secure AI code execution to any app using E2B’s Code Interpreter SDK alongside Anthropic's Sonnet 3.5 and Vercel’s AI SDK. The workshop builds an open-source version of Claude’s artifacts UI, running Python code in isolated Firecracker VMs that start in ~900ms and support custom environments via Dockerfiles. Vasek explains how E2B’s Jupyter-server-based sandbox returns stdout, stderr, runtime errors, and rich outputs like PNG charts, which are streamed to the front end using Vercel’s stream data. He covers security architecture—full root access in a VM that self-destructs on escape—and plans for AWS/GCP self-hosting and snapshot-based agent branching. The episode also addresses customizing sandboxes with private packages, mounting cloud storage (S3, GCS), and interpreting table previews as HTML or images.