GitHub, every mention
153 scenes, the whole family · ← back to GitHub
every year anyone Michael Copeland 37Peter Levine 27Chris Wanstrath 23Martin Casado 14Sonal Chokshi 9Steph Smith 8Michael Rogers 8AI Security Researcher 8Steven Sinofsky 7Balaji Srinivasan 7
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where GitHub comes up
Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence
- ▶ 20:12 Ryan Chi Um, it allows any company to take their GitHub code base and build their internal coding benchmark from it to get a sense of what coding agents are gonna be the most performant, but also what's going to be Pareto optimal or the, the…
- ▶ 24:03 Ryan Chi GitHub repo and, and built out the Val Smith tool. 2 times in the scene
How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- ▶ 12:10 Sarah Wang Because you mentioned co-pilot.
- ▶ 14:32 unnamed speaker They have GitHub. 2 times in the scene
AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.
- ▶ 15:33 Feross Aboukhadijeh I mean, you know, it sounds like in this case, it might have been, and this is speculation still early, we're still working to figure it out, but it, it might have been, um, a get of action that, um, you know, was insecure and that an… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:22 Feross Aboukhadijeh Hooked up this stuff to, you know, automation so that, you know, GitHub Actions kicks off the publish, and so that's gonna break, like, up, like the whole, basically the whole ecosystem when they do this, but I think it's the right call,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:22 Feross Aboukhadijeh Hooked up this stuff to, you know, automation so that, you know, GitHub Actions kicks off the publish, and so that's gonna break, like, up, like the whole, basically the whole ecosystem when they do this, but I think it's the right call,…
How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 51:48 Qasar Younis And if you look at, like, how tooling has changed in the digital AI world, if you look at, like, what Claude did to all, you know, we also remember, like, you know, from Mixpanel to, you know, GitLab, GitHub, all these, now everything has…
Jake Paul on Going From YouTube to Boxing to Investing | a16z ft. Anti Fund
How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
- ▶ 0:23 Alex Blania And AI will be able to have a GitHub account and will be able to post
- ▶ 4:40 Alex Blania and then you post regularly or you comment regularly to GitHub. 2 times in the scene
How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
- ▶ 11:11 Owen Jennings And then I can commit it to GitHub and I can, I can get the markdown file.
- ▶ 15:07 Owen Jennings I think everyone's probably seen, you know, every, every CEO out there is going on Twitter and showing their, like, green dot on, on, uh, on GitHub, um, but that's real.
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 25:00 Olivia Moore So now it's, I think, number one GitHub stars of all time.
From $0 to $11B: The ElevenLabs Story
- ▶ 4:39 ElevenLabs Engineer I was developing this text-to-speech project, and like, kind of like Peter wrote me through GitHub.
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 17:53 unnamed speaker You know, many of these institutions are beginning to adopt products like Cursor or, you know, even GitHub Copilot or a broader ecosystem of kind of AI products in their, in their employee base, and people are seeing the productivity gains.
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
- ▶ 1:58 Michael Truell Uh, one was trying some of the first useful AI products, and in particular, trying GitHub Copilot, the incumbent in our space, uh, and, uh,
- ▶ 5:07 Martin Casado What the cursor did well is you were incredibly focused, you chose VS Code, Copilot had matured the market for a few years at the time, and it was this narrow focus and just like a way, way, way better product, um, that did it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:18 Michael Truell It was started by the person who had built Copilot, GitHub Copilot before GitHub Copilot, which was tab nine, um, and was also a researcher at OpenAI, had done a bunch of work with, uh, with John, um, uh, Thinking Machines, and, uh, uh,…
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 45:11 Amjad Masad It's, um, uh, as opposed to like prior modalities of AI, like when, uh, AI first came to coding, it was autocomplete with co-pilot.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 9:25 Amjad Masad You can push it to GitHub.
- ▶ 16:44 Amjad Masad So we have a pull request that we have on GitHub.
- ▶ 28:34 Amjad Masad Uh, and basically they went and looked on GitHub. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:13 Amjad Masad I was on GitHub at the time, and just my standard thing is, like, when I make a piece of software, just open source it, and so I was open sourcing all the things.
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 53:36 Kevin Rose And then I'm deploying everything out to GitHub, which automatically gets deployed to Vercel, which means I have an active app that's up and running.
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 20:13 Martin Casado Like, Kong had just come out, and it was taking off, but like, it had only been a couple of weeks, maybe a couple of months, and so, honestly, I'll tell you what, what did it for me is, um, you know, we were doing all the work, and like,…
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 23:47 Martin Casado Like, think about, like, GitHub.
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 22:58 Chris Dixon And, you know, it's this thing where vibe coding, I think probably some of the training data came from Stack Overflow and GitHub and places, but then it becomes better.
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 35:44 Martin Casado Well, so something that's really caught my attention because it's the most senior people I know, um, is that a lot of very senior developers are spinning up a lot of background agents, like code agents, and they're interfacing at like the…
The State of AI: Growth, Fragmentation, and the Next Wave
- ▶ 4:14 Martin Casado It was co-pilot, right?
- ▶ 12:40 Martin Casado It was Copilot, and so Microsoft had invested a ton of money and matured the market with, with Copilot, with VS Code, and so everybody knew it. 3 times in the scene
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 16:39 Guido Appenzeller With a straight, like, I talk to a lot of enterprises, like a classical enterprise straight up, you know, GitHub Copilot deployment, that gives you about 15%. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:04 Dylan Patel Like GitHub, how is GitHub not the highest ARR software, uh, code model?
- ▶ 1:04:22 Dylan Patel It's like, like GitHub Copilot is failing.
Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
- ▶ 45:16 Michael Lingelbach Like, I recently started using, like, Claude with, like, linear, and Notion, and GitHub integration as, like, a micro PM working with me, checking out, like, YPBs.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 37:10 Balaji Srinivasan This X.com was, in a sense, tech's revenge for making every fucking GitHub renamed from master to main. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:06 Balaji Srinivasan And it's the kind of thing you want, obviously, you know, come to ASCZ or come to network school, come to ns.com, come to network school, come and work with us, you know, but for example, you know, GitHub allows a bunch of people to…
- ▶ 1:29:09 Balaji Srinivasan Like, imagine you have a bunch of checks, sort of like, um, community notes, but a bunch of check marks at the bottom, like a continuous integration with GitHub, right?
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 18:13 Martin Casado And before that, GitHub, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:30 Martin Casado I'm actually on the, like, the, the, the GitHub mailing list of a lot of the companies that I work with.
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- ▶ 40:10 Aaron Levie So if you think about, like, the GitHub co-pilot moment was like, oh, this thing is incredible, it's gonna type ahead, and, and predict what I'm typing.
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
- ▶ 2:15 Matt Bornstein Also, there's this thing called GitHub Copilot, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:29 Guido Appenzeller GitHub Copilot and cursor that basically allows you to use autocomplete, which is a big step forward, right?
- ▶ 13:32 Yoko Li I can use GitHub MCP to pull in the relevant context.
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 28:18 Zeno Rocha There's just a lot of systems that developers rely every single day, uh, like GitHub, you know, they are storing their pull requests in one place, but they also have branches that are running locally on their machines that they haven't…
Avoiding vulnerabilities in AI code
- ▶ 2:41 AI Security Researcher Basically, we just went out and asked all the LLMs, write me an integration with GitHub, write me an integration with Stripe, and the vast majority of them hard coded the API key directly into the code that they generated.
- ▶ 3:52 AI Security Researcher But for the most part, if you ask it to integrate with GitHub, it saw a plethora of different GitHub's 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:12 AI Security Researcher Let's say you train this thing on all the code on GitHub. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:14 AI Security Researcher Um, so like all of these have direct analogs to the security world when this thing goes and trains on all of GitHub. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:43 AI Security Researcher I imagine they all use all of GitHub.
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 47:35 Ben Horowitz Um, so much of that lives in GitHub.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 45:03 Ben Horowitz Skeptical about, uh, the distance between, like, what we can do now with co-pilot to complete human elimination, um, just in terms of the technologies that we've seen.
Marty Chavez (Sixth Street): Finding a Single Source of AI Truth
- ▶ 24:51 David Haber Fortune 100 is using maybe GitHub Copilot in some new organization or Microsoft AI product.
Big Ideas 2024: The Rise of the Developer as a Buyer in Financial Services with Angela Strange
- ▶ 11:57 Angela Strange But if you look at GitHub copilots, depending on the engineer, that's 30 to 100% increased productivity.
2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
- ▶ 4:03 Jonathan Lai And so some of the products that they named include ChatGPT, Midjourney, 11 Labs, KDEM, Adobe Firefly, GitHub Copilot, et cetera.
Democratizing Design with Figma's Dylan Field
- ▶ 11:18 Dylan Field And on the code side, uh, I haven't yet met design any developer who's just pressing the button for code pilot all the time.
- ▶ 12:17 Dylan Field And I think because of that, probably, um, you know, one, one outcome might be that we find more success with models that are similar to CodePilot than you do with like a diffusion model, for example, when you're trying to figure out how…
AI Copilots and the Future of Knowledge Work with Microsoft's Kevin Scott
- ▶ 2:15 Bob Swan You've partnered with leaders in the industry, whether it's GitHub or OpenAI, as you mentioned, and most recently, the Meta Llama II announcement. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:53 Kevin Scott Get used to train some of the most advanced AI models and systems in the world, and then we're going to do some work together to figure out how to take those models, those platform building blocks, and get them deployed into products that…
- ▶ 10:28 Bob Swan One of the, you know, one of the use cases that has been pretty powerful, um, has really been code assistant within GitHub Copilot. 2 times in the scene
Improving AI with Anthropic's Dario Amodei
- ▶ 4:27 Dario Amodei Uh, and when I saw the Python programming, even though it was very simple stuff, even though a lot of it was stuff you could memorize, you know, you could, you could put it in kind of new, new situations, come up with something that isn't…
Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
- ▶ 16:17 unnamed speaker Like a lot of people are familiar with GitHub Copilot. 4 times in the scene
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 21:12 Steph Smith So something like a co-pilot is built on top of GPT-III to my knowledge, and that's a decision to be built off another platform, but you went a different route.
- ▶ 23:41 Steph Smith Something that I found really interesting was Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman were on the Stratechery podcast, and they talked about how they ultimately, I mean, they're investors, they're not the creators of Copilot, but how Copilot… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:12 Steph Smith Copilot came out, what was it, like a year ago or so? 2 times in the scene
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 1:06:13 Steph Smith Because right now we are relying on a few models like GPT-III, which influence Copilot or some of these other layers.
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 12:34 Chris Power And also the knowledge that is used to make those parts is not like in some, you know, GitHub or something, uh, where they can pass it onto Lockheed and say, Hey, someone else can go make this part.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 2:19:29 Balaji Srinivasan It's just like Google's example of using Linux eventually forced reform on Microsoft, and now they own GitHub or whatever, right?
The Open Source Movement in Fintech
- ▶ 5:35 Angela Strange Git, popularized by GitHub.
Why DAOs Matter for Digital Art
- ▶ 3:25 People Pleaser I thought I had this idea to include some of the actual code from V two, which is on their GitHub.
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 14:05 Chris Dixon I don't know, a hundred, probably a hundred million plus cryptocurrency enthusiasts who have, they have Twitter followers, they have blogs, they have GitHub accounts, they have Reddit karma, um, and they're out proselytizing, and, you…
How to Build an Open Source Business
- ▶ 1:10 Peter Levine Cloudera, Mongo, MuleSoft, Elastic, GitHub, all multi-billion dollar, uh, M&A events or IPOs.
- ▶ 3:42 Peter Levine Indicators here are things like GitHub stars, the number of collaborators, the number of pull requests, and open source can start from many different places.
- ▶ 21:53 Peter Levine If successful, you may start to see a graph like this, and this is a graph that we saw at GitHub.
Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 6:02 Chris Dixon Well see, it's not just a programming language, then it's also like, it's like, you know, the great thing about Python, it's not just like, there's, there's 10,000 GitHub projects or any of those formal verification, so just as an example,…
- ▶ 23:53 Chris Dixon You can go read the GitHub code.
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 17:34 Benedict Evans You just go into your, um, GitHub, and you can download 15 scripts and tie them together, and you'll get the same thing.
Security Markets: The Lay of the Land
- ▶ 3:52 unnamed speaker There's one company that I heard of that checked their credentials for AWS into their GitHub repo on accident, mistake that people make.
a16z Podcast | Finding Go-to-Market Fit in the Enterprise
- ▶ 29:05 Peter Levine GitHub is a good example.
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 44:56 Frank Chen Or think about GitHub as the repository for all of these open source things.
What's Next for Education Startups
- ▶ 27:36 unnamed speaker You already see this at our startups that are looking for software engineers and designers and that type of thing, and the school has become less, less important than, well, show me your GitHub repos, or show me your portfolio on Dribbble,…
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 25:00 Marc Andreessen And so, like, those technologies and then collaboration technologies like Slack and GitHub, right, are becoming really good today, and in 20 years they're going to be, you know, just spectacularly amazing.
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 12:41 Sonal Chokshi It's funny that you brought up the sort of fringe phase of open source, because besides Microsoft acquiring GitHub, recently IBM announced acquiring Red Hat, and I think it's so fascinating, because even with Microsoft, I think Steve…
a16z Podcast | When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
- ▶ 10:03 Martin Casado I think our experience here with Slack and with GitHub and with many companies is,
a16z Podcast | Crypto And The Evolution Of Open Source
- ▶ 2:43 Dennis Nazarov And I think it's important to kind of dig in to that and talk about the nuance, you know, get the GitHub model is a really good way of thinking about it is a GitHub repo is basically a collection of, of texts. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Earned Secrets
- ▶ 0:38 unnamed speaker But first we start with the moral of the story of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
- ▶ 18:00 Marc Andreessen My hope is that we're gonna get telepresence, right, in the form of video conferencing, and telepresence robots, and VR, and AR, and all these things, collaboration software, and workgroup software, and Slack, and GitHub, and all these…
a16z Podcast | The End (and Beginning) of Programming
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker Today's episode is all about the end and new beginning of programming, featuring guest Chris Wanstrath, co-founder and former CEO of GitHub, and A, Six and Z general partner Peter Levine, who's on the board of and led our investment in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:35 Chris Wanstrath If you're confused about who was who, I'm the GitHub person. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:30 Chris Wanstrath We also see our customers, people that used to use Jira, people that are in the marketing team that want to update just some copy on a website, they're increasingly moving to something like GitHub, and they're also giving us feature… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:29 Chris Wanstrath GitHub came out in 2007, and for me, GitHub was very much influenced by the open source movement, but I think for a lot of people, open source didn't become part of their vocabulary until maybe later, 30 years after free software.
a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security
- ▶ 14:10 Stina Ehrensvärd The same key I can log into Facebook and Dropbox and GitHub.
a16z Podcast | Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens
- ▶ 30:30 Chris Dixon It could be, you know, GitHub, Twitter, Slack, groups, Reddit.
a16z Podcast | A New Lab Rises
- ▶ 9:44 Peter Levine And a lot of that, which you, you guys at Databricks are doing, and many other companies, GitHub is another example, these hosted offerings that leverage open source has given a very clear path to sort of marry the innovation with open… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 20:21 Fred Ehrsam Namely, we'll go from assembling on bitcointalk.org and r slash ethereum to better threaded GitHub repos or who knows what the next advancement will be. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- ▶ 2:33 James Waters The developers that, you know, fork it on GitHub, star it on GitHub, and the, the misassociation as a first thing between the people that use it and then the people they need to cater to selling to is kind of what you might call the first…