From Prompt to Bicep: GitHub Copilot for Azure in Action

Over two years ago, I wrote about GitHub Copilot for the first time. Back then, it was powered by OpenAI Codex models, not the models we know today. GitHub Copilot has come a long way since then, where we now have frontier models such as GPT-4.1 and Sonnet 4, agent…

30/06/2025 Article Bloggers John Lokerse

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