AI Agents News Digest: 06/16/2025 GitHub’s new AI coding agent is making waves across developer and business circles. This autonomous tool identifies bugs, proposes fixes via pull requests, and reduces manual code review time by up to 40%—a breakthrough for developers tired of mundane fixes. For businesses, early adopters report $28,000 annual savings per developer by automating security patches and vulnerability scans. Newcomers can think of it as a "self-healing code assistant" that learns from codebases to prevent recurring issues. Microsoft’s Agentic AI Accelerator launched this week, offering devs hands-on training with Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio for building multi-agent systems. Technical leads praise its focus on solving integration headaches, like orchestrating agents across Teams and SharePoint. Meanwhile, Datadog’s new SRE Assistant Agent automates infrastructure alerts, cutting incident response times by 30%—a game-changer for DevOps teams. Businesses are seeing tangible ROI: A telecom giant slashed payment processing time by 50% using AI agents , while insurers achieved 95% accuracy in automated underwriting . Retailers using AI for inventory management reduced stockouts by 35% . For newcomers, these aren’t sci-fi fantasies—think of AI agents as *digital interns* that handle repetitive tasks, freeing humans for creative work. Start exploring with GitHub’s open-source bug-fixing prototypes or Microsoft’s free AI Agent Hackathon kits . Remember: While agents excel at narrow tasks (like generating meeting summaries ), they’re not yet replacing engineers. As IBM notes, 2025 is the year of "specialized agents," not all-knowing AI . The key takeaway? Targeted automation drives value today—no sci-fi required.