Microsoft MVP, Nx Champion, GitHub Stars alum, Open-Source Maintainer
Lars is a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, Nx Champion, GitHub Stars alum, book author, international speaker, tech writer, open-source maintainer, and community organizer.
Lars' favorite programming language is JavaScript. He has a vast experience across frontend development, cloud-native systems, development experience, automated testing, continuous delivery/deployment, and agentic experience.
Official Microsoft MVP profile: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003831?fullName=Lars+Gyrup+Brink+Nielsen
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Aug. 20, 2026
GitHub Copilot, Clean Context, Automated Testing & AI Coding Agents with Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen [MVP]
AI-assisted development is moving beyond autocomplete and chat. Modern AI coding agents can inspect repositories, modify files, run tests, analyze failures, create pull requests, and execute increasingly complex development tasks. In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters talks with Microsoft MVP Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen about GitHub Copilot, AI coding agents, developer experience, automated testing, TypeScript, JavaScript, Nx, monorepos, Polygraph, GitHub Actions, Playwright, and the...
Guests: Mirko Peters , Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen