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O'Driscoll: GitHub is now a trailing edge product
“And the fact that they've lost that connection with developers, that GitHub is now a trailing edge product, is to me, over the medium term, a pretty significant loss.”
Lemkin: Cursor's Origin Will Replace GitHub's Workflow Within Months
“I mean, cursor launched origin, right? Which would bought graphite or whatever. It's going to become a GitHub entire workflow replacement in a couple months, right?”
Lemkin: Destroying Cursor and Windsurf is existential for Microsoft's GitHub
“Co-pilot versus Cursor and WinServe is number friggin' one on their gotta kill list for Microsoft, number one. It's all over. It is existential for that, for GitHub to destroy them.”
Podjarny: Platforms like GitHub and Vercel will dominate AI software development
“I think there is a pretty high chance that we're going towards this path. Ease of use of software development is already, you know, amazing, and you're seeing platforms like, ah, Vercel, for instance, you know, make it very easy to generate applications and go…”
Kant: Neither OpenAI nor Poolside is allowed to train on private code
“But private code, no one's allowed to train on. Not us, not OpenAI. So all of us have access to the same public data.”
Nejatian: Shopify requires marketers to use GitHub and salespeople to write SQL
“We don't have that at Shopify. At Shopify, if a marketer wants to create a new landing page, they have to go into GitHub. They have to know how to write some code. They have, like, this is a real thing, and our, so our marketers learn how to write some code. L…”
O'Driscoll: 100% of developers will buy AI coding assistants
“A hundred percent of developers are going to buy a tool like Cursor, like Winsor, because that's how development is done now, like GitHub.”
Gross: Dropbox, GitHub, and Heroku fell into cultural growth plateaus
“And, you know, arguably, you know, even Dropbox and GitHub and in Heroku have fallen into this in different times.”
Kant: Rejecting GitHub's all-stock acquisition offer was my worst financial decision
“It was probably the dumbest financial decision of my life, considering it was an all stock offer and GitHub sold to Microsoft, I think, less than a year later.”
Adam Gross Takes Credit for Naming GitHub Actions
“And, you know, there are a bunch of names being kicked around like flows and workflows or stuff like that. And now and I'm happy to take credit for this. It's of course called GitHub actions.”
Söderström: There is no GitHub equivalent for music collaboration
“There isn't anything like that in music. There is no GitHub for music.”
Alan documented over 4,000 company decisions in written GitHub issues
“One of the things that we did is that we have a lot of written discussion, and most of our decisions are taken, not in meetings, but in written forums and GitHub issues, and that base of knowledge helps every newcomer to see all the decisions we have made, and…”
Sijbrandij: GitLab has evolved to have ten times the scope of GitHub
“GitLab started off as a being inspired by GitHub, and it's now evolved into a product that has a scope that is 10 times the scope that GitHub has.”
Grimshaw names GitHub, Segment, Benchling, and Monzo as top investment returns
“I think if you looked at Realized, it would probably GitHub or Segment. If you look at Unrealized, maybe Benchling or Monzo,”
Segment's Hacker News launch drove thousands of GitHub stars and signups
“We just went straight to the top of Hacker News, got hundreds of upvotes, thousands of stars on GitHub, thousands of email signups.”
Bloomberg Beta published its fund operating manual publicly on GitHub
“We published our manual to GitHub and released it under an open source license”
Linda Lian: AWS launched its developer community programs around 2017
“This was around 2017 when we really started building all of the developer community engagement programs that AWS still has today, including our developer Slack, our Reddit engagement, our Stack Overflow engagement, open sourcing product roadmaps on GitHub.”