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#ai-coding-agents

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GitHub Copilot model lifecycle showing six models moving toward retirement and newer replacements

GitHub's October Copilot Model Retirements Turn Model Choice Into a Maintenance Task

GitHub's latest Copilot deprecation wave removes six models across Chat, inline edits, agent modes, and code completions. The important signal is not the replacements themselves but the growing need to treat model selection as a versioned dependency.

2026-09-19#GitHub Copilot · #AI coding agents

Android Bench 2.0 measuring long-horizon AI coding tasks, agent workflows and continuous completion scores

AI Evaluation & Developer Systems6 min read

Android Bench 2.0 Changes the Question From Code Completion to End-to-End Engineering

Android Bench 2.0 is a useful signal because its hardest tasks look more like real engineering projects than isolated coding exercises, and its low full-task pass rate makes that difference measurable.

2026-09-19#Android Bench · #AI coding agents