At Microsoft’s Ignite conference on November 18, the company unveiled new AI-powered software features designed to make coders’ lives easier—including a tool to automatically fix security issues as new vulnerabilities are discovered.

“Over this past year, the nature of being a software engineer has really started to change,” says Amanda Silver, corporate vice president and head of product for apps and agents at Microsoft. “And our focus has been on tackling the most miserable, soul-draining parts of the job and really transforming them, so that developers can kind of bring joy back to their day-to-day lives.”

One result of that effort is an AI offering, now in public preview, that combines the runtime application protection of Microsoft Defender for Cloud with GitHub Advanced Security’s

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