In today’s Cloud Wars AI Minute, I examine how GitHub Copilot squads and Claude Code agent teams are changing the way AI agents communicate, collaborate, and solve complex problems.
Highlights
00:12— And today, we want to talk about AI coding squads. We’re seeing this change about how we’re seeing agents being able to go and work on different, really complex projects. And we used to have this one assistant that would go out and everything else, but now we’re starting to see teams of agents going and doing things, and we see different configurations of this.
00:54 — So you could have a front-end developer, a back-end developer, an auditor, all of these different things, and they’re just basically different personas. And then the beauty of this is where we talk about something like Claude Code subagents, which has been out for a while. This is more the concept of a task agent, where you have a parent that is going to spin off subagents underneath it.
01:34 — Well, when we get into GitHub Copilot squads, we actually see this changing, where what we’re having is that each of these different personas are created as members of a team, and the teams work together to be able to come with, like, a common shared team memory and allow them to be able to communicate back and forth, to be able to assign tasks and collaborate and communicate with one another.
02:02 — And this makes it where you end up with a more robust way of actually solving problems, where you’re not having to orchestrate it all through a single, a single agent that’s supposed to make the decisions on everything. Now you have different personas that can weigh in their opinions and play their role. You can kind of think of it just the same way you would have a human team.
03:15 — But we’re going to start seeing more and more of the different AI creators or the different providers of agents starting to take this tack, where they’re going to have more of a squad or a team of agents versus having a parent-child relationship, like we’ve seen in the past. So, something to keep your eye on and pay attention to as you continue to move forward in your AI journey itself.
