Automating Greener Code: Using AI Agents to optimise software efficiency

There are many resources available for guidance on how to write code that is efficient and results in more sustainable software applications, but applying these at scale can be challenging, and often isn’t a priority for busy teams.

GitHub have recently released Agentic Workflows, a way of specifying automation tasks in human-readable format to be performed by an AI agent as part of a GitHub Actions workflow. In this talk, Max Mizzi from GitHub's Sustainability team gives an overview of Agentic Workflows, and will demonstrate how they can be used to improve software efficiency through both structured green software rules and autonomous performance engineering. He'll finish by walking through a real-world use-case showing how the technology helped to dramatically reduce the energy consumption – and carbon footprint – of a major website.

Come along if you want to learn more about using AI to improve the energy efficiency of your software.

Check out the Green Software Brighton website for links to previous talks.

Arrive from 18:00 for pizza and drinks. Event will start at 18:30. We always head for a drink and a chat locally afterwards too.

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Thank you to Runway East for use of their space to host our events and to Silicon Brighton and the Green Software Foundation for supporting us.