Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
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Stephen Toub
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Stephen Toub
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
Why it matters
Shows a concrete, large-scale case of coding agents handling a full production language migration incrementally in main, with measurable team-size and time reduction plus major runtime performance gains.
