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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where GitHub Copilot comes up on Latent Space, Lenny's Podcast, No Priors, the Official SaaStr Podcast, the MAD Podcast
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
- ▶ 1:04:22 Dylan Patel It's like, like GitHub Copilot is failing.
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- ▶ 7:52 Brian Balfour And so it's amazing to see something like cursor overtake market share of something like GitHub co-pilot in nine months or less, right?
Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- ▶ 1:02:24 Greg Brockman And so then you would have a mechanical engineer come and fix it, and that team went on to go do what became GitHub Copilot, which is obviously an amazing feat and a real accomplishment and something that they were able to move so much…
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
- ▶ 16:13 Amjad Masad If you look at Copilot, which is Microsoft's product, which was the first market versus Cursor, which is the more modern kind of AI coding, uh, IDE. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 0:17 John Coogan GitHub co-pilot. 2 times in the scene
Microsoft’s Cloud Outpaces Its AI Growth
- ▶ 0:12 unnamed speaker GitHub co-pilot. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:26 unnamed speaker Um, and I mean, the, the, the narrative around AWS is different, because Microsoft has OpenAI, Microsoft Research, and has GitHub Copilot, and is, like, really moving things forward in the AI world, and Satya's seen as someone who goes on…
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:28 unnamed speaker And, you know, they added the co-pilot, you know, when that was CEO, it was an, that one said I'll be, it was an excellent product.
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 3:00 Shawn Wang And then from out of nowhere, you cloned GitHub Copilot.
- ▶ 9:34 Varun Mohan Products like Copilot as being extremely valuable and something that is generating a lot of value to professionals. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:41 Varun Mohan So I guess, I guess the story was, I guess four or five months ago, we sort of decided internally as a team, we were like very early adopters of Copilot. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:49 Shawn Wang Copilot costs 10 dollars a month. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:50 Shawn Wang And you, you said something to the order of, and this maybe gets into Copilot for X, which is something that everybody is keen about because they see the success of Copilot. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:22 Varun Mohan So I think there was a great study and I'm not sure if it's possible to link it, but there was a great study about Copilot actually that came out.
- ▶ 24:09 Alessio Fanelli So Copilot for X, what are X's that you think are interesting for people to build in? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:54 Shawn Wang So co-pilot is twelve billion parameters.
- ▶ 42:37 Shawn Wang So, so GitHub Copilot, uh, the extension does this thing where they, they like, they'll set a timer and then within like five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, they'll check in to see if the code is still there.
- ▶ 55:14 Kevin Hou And you'll note that this is even higher than tools like chat GPT and GitHub copilot.
- ▶ 1:18:23 Scott Wu If you think about a lot of these Q&A products, if you think about, you know, writing marketing copy or answering customer support or even GitHub Copilot and Cursor and products like that, you know, obviously very, you know, a lot of these…
- ▶ 2:05:10 Alessio Fanelli And Copilot was 10 bucks a month.
- ▶ 2:20:48 Shawn Wang I specifically like the Copilot for X thing, because everyone, it was so hot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:44:31 Kevin Hou Copilot was the state of the art.
- ▶ 3:21:36 Kevin Hou But then once services like Copilot, like Codium, they launched, then devs got really excited.
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:21 Martin Casado With, with, with, with GitHub Copilot.
Nat Friedman Leads $15M in Superintelligence Insurance Company | AIUC · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 43:25 Rune Kvist Some of the risk questions that we were dealing with when he was leading GitHub, they built GoPilot, which is like the first real AI product that worked, and he led the efforts that led to Microsoft basically ensuring all of their…
Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 27:17 unnamed speaker Which, you know, really took off, really became this useful tool, has, I believe, like hundreds of thousands of developers on there using it regularly, made for a better product than other much more like entrenched products that are out…
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 13:17 Dan Shipper So, you know, you've got co-pilot.
- ▶ 15:10 Dan Shipper So with Copilot, it was like a, you can tab complete, and that was like the beginning.
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 6:06 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan That's really different from how the, you know, the other things at the time were things like copilot and cursor and Adr.
- ▶ 11:05 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan And I think Klein complements all these things really well in that, you know, we get the opportunity to kind of figure out and, and work really closely with our users to figure out what the best agentic experience is, whereas, you know,…
- ▶ 1:11:23 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan I feel like Klein kind of stands out in the space for having, for being a little bit more humanized than something like, you know, a cursor agent or a copilot-pilot or a cascade.
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 4:01 Alex Kantrowitz So the politics that you talk about between OpenAI and Microsoft, I am just going to imagine that Microsoft has GitHub Copilot, which allows you to do a lot of this AI generated code thing, and the fact that it's invested all this money in…
Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:20 Vlad Tenev We've moved from, you know, GitHub Copilot, which is an auto-complete system, to Cursor, and now things like Windsurf, where, I mean, nearly all of the code is, is written by AI, and the adoption rate within engineering for, for us is,
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.
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:31 Aravind Srinivas We made it mandatory to use at least one AI coding tool, and internally at perplexity it happens to be cursor and like a mix, mix of cursor and GitHub Copilot.
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI · Y Combinator
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 11:56 Soham Parekh Um, you know, some of these companies I've worked at was before the co-pilot boom, right?
- ▶ 2:58:53 Will Depue I mean, like copilot was early. 2 times in the scene
Soham Parekh Breaks His Silence (First Interview)
- ▶ 6:16 Soham Parekh Um, you know, some of these companies I've worked at was before the co-pilot boom, right?
Why Enterprise AI Adoption Is Moving 5-10X Faster Than Cloud with Box 's Aaron Levie and IBM's VP AI
- ▶ 17:16 Aaron Levie Yeah, I mean, I mean, even just take something as simple as, let's say, GitHub Copilot, right?
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 35:54 John Coogan Github copilot cursor?
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
- ▶ 7:51 Alex Kantrowitz Microsoft currently has access to all of OpenAI's IP, uh, it offers, but it offers its own AI coding product, GitHub Copilot, that competes with OpenAI, and OpenAI doesn't want Microsoft to have access to Windsurf's intellectual property.
Coatue’s Laffont Brothers. AI, Public & VC Mkts, Macro, US Debt, Crypto, IPO's, & more | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 47:24 Thomas Laffont Then, ironically, just as GitHub Copilot comes in, Brad, familiar with the term, the get fit era.
From Math Prodigy to AI Genius: How Scott Wu Built Devin · Joe Lonsdale
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:22 Michael Truell One of them was using the first useful AI products where AI was really at the center, and GitHub Copilot was honestly the moment where that viscerally we really felt like, uh, now it was possible to make just
- ▶ 20:31 Michael Truell Um, we, I mean, being programmers ourselves and being inspired by products like Copilot and, uh, also papers like the early codex papers. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:12 Michael Truell So we knew, we knew a little bit about this, the internal inside baseball of building GitHub Copilot, the first version, the, the whole building GitHub Copilot story from what I understand, and you know, don't have firsthand knowledge, so… 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
Windsurf CEO & Co-Founder, Varun Mohan: AI's Biggest Acquisition to Date! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:58 Varun Mohan GitHub Copilot was the product that everyone, everyone was talking about, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:33 Varun Mohan Uh, I am aware of the fact that Copilot has done that, but most of our logic is actually in the backend.
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 1:21:01 Brian Armstrong So, I mean, the basic ones you probably know, it's like, we got, we onboarded all of our engineers to co-pilot and cursor and everything like that.
No Priors Ep. 116 | With Sarah and Elad
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 35:26 Aparna Chennapragada Uh, yeah, no, actually it was just like, I mean, I'm, I live in GitHub and GitHub Copilot.
- ▶ 45:46 Lenny Rachitsky You guys said Copilot, the first tool in the world at this stuff. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:37 Aparna Chennapragada I, I do use a lot of Microsoft products, GitHub Copilot being one of them, but I think the one that I maybe I'll pick is, um, Granola, I think is the name of the app.
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?
Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra
- ▶ 7:51 Antonio Scandurra So this idea that like, you know, for the longest time there's been like copilot style suggestions where like copilot suggests edits at your cursor.
How to build SaaS App in a weekend using AI (Steal This)
- ▶ 22:19 Greg Isenberg Then he uses cursor or VS or CodePilot, you know, pick a tool of your choice to start adding the database.
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 14:13 Leigh Marie Braswell And essentially what happened was he and Douglas and the team saw what was happening with GitHub Copilot, um, and how, like, even in the beta, like how useful it was, but then there were all these problems, but like, it's already so… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:04 Molly O'Shea We have Cursor, Copilot, Devin, there's so many in this environment.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:09 unnamed speaker Co-pilot versus Cursor and WinServe is number friggin' one on their gotta kill list for Microsoft, number one.
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- ▶ 13:24 Michael Truell One was, uh, being really excited by using the, the, the first beta version of the co-pilot actually. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:31 Lenny Rachitsky If, even if something looks like, okay, it's too late, there's GitHub Copiles out there, some other products.
- ▶ 44:12 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, along those lines, it's interesting that Microsoft was actually, like, right at this set, like, at the center of this first with an amazing product, amazing distribution co-pilot. 4 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 113 | With OpenAI's Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie
How he built iOS apps that PRINT with Cursor + Claude
- ▶ 4:37 unnamed speaker I somehow got my hands on the first version of GitHub co-pilot when it first came out.
Why Humor Is the True Test of AI Intelligence | Will Brown on TBPN
- ▶ 14:38 Will Brown It's co-pilot.
Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf
- ▶ 6:23 Varun Mohan And at that time we were early adopters of GitHub co-pilot and we thought the coding space was going to get tremendously disrupted in the next coming years.
- ▶ 37:45 Lenny Rachitsky Also there's Copilot, but that's different.
Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work
- ▶ 33:24 Aaron Levie Uh, you know, get up, get up co-pilot now, I don't know, three years old, uh, cursor's flying off your shelves, wind service flying off the shelf, you know, replit, all these guys are, are, are, are kind of being, you know, used everywhere.
- ▶ 1:10:50 Aaron Levie Um, so by virtue of us doing so much in, in the data space, uh, you know, I would say probably by volume box AI is probably the number one thing, you know, kind of maybe in competition with cope, uh, with GitHub copilot. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- ▶ 55:47 Kevin Weil Um, where it's just, so you have these tools like Cursor and Windsurf that, and GitHub Copilot that are very good at suggesting, uh, what code you might want to write.
Are AI AGENTS Learning to DREAM? | Shawn Wang on TBPN April 4th
- ▶ 18:07 Shawn 'swyx' Wang We've, we've effectively gone from, like, single line autocomplete to, like, functions autocomplete, and now with, like, Windsurf and Cloud Code and, um, Copilot and Cursor, we're generating basically entire apps, um, and NPRs, uh, for…
The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- ▶ 24:55 Dharmesh Shah Uh, in the GitHub co-pilot to like, oh, finish this particular thing and hit tab to a, oh, I sort of know your file or whatever.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:35 Mitchell Green They can use companies like Cursor, Copilot, to help their 10 engineers become like 30 or 40 engineers.
Amjad Masad on Replit, AI Agents, and the Death of Traditional Software.
- ▶ 13:57 Amjad Masad You can go from Copilot to Windsurf to Cursor in like five minutes.
- ▶ 26:13 Amjad Masad AI trendiness and Replit obviously was early, you know, we were the first outside of co-pilot to train a code model.
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 8:18 Matt Biilmann In our space, it's on the one hand tools like cursor, copilot, windsurf.
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 0:16 Sarah Guo As CEO, Thomas has overseen the development of tools like GitHub Copilot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:37 Sarah Guo What is happening with, um, Copilot and, uh, the new releases at GitHub recently? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:04 Thomas Dohmke Now, how do you know whether you should assign co-pilot to this, um, the agent to it, um, or, or whether you need to refine the issue to be more specific, right?
- ▶ 6:17 Sarah Guo Is for Copilot today, like how you do planning and make decisions about what to try and, um, how you improve it? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:46 Sarah Guo Um, how, how do you think about winning the, like, GitHub is obviously a very dominant force overall, as is Copilot, but how do you think about, you know, winning the developer over and what they care about in that, um, you know, changing…
- ▶ 10:41 Sarah Guo You have such like rich data about how people are actually using Copilot. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:15 Thomas Dohmke While at the extreme other end of the spectrum with web development and AI, you're going to be able, and you're, we're already there, like, you know, just look at a, a ten-year-old, give them, you know, um, a tool like, like Copilot or,…
- ▶ 25:09 Thomas Dohmke You know, we started Copilot almost five years ago, um, June, 20, 20.
- ▶ 29:51 Elad Gil One other thing that's been striking about GitHub and Copilot and everything else is the actual business success. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:44 Thomas Dohmke Like if you think about Copilot, Copilot, um, you know, costs, um, for businesses, 20 dollars per user per month, that's actually almost exactly the same price as you pay for GitHub Enterprise, uh, which is 21 dollars per user per month. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:24 Sarah Guo Today, you can use Claude and OpenAI in Copilot and Gemini, but not necessarily open source models right now. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:38 Thomas Dohmke Also an infinite amount of patience, um, because, you know, copilot doesn't run out of patience. 2 times in the scene
Solve coding, solve AGI [Reflection.ai launch w/ CEO Misha Laskin]
- ▶ 17:42 Misha Laskin Yeah, so the kinds of problems we want to solve are maybe first just thinking about what, there are multiple form factors for a coding product, and the form factor that is most common today is, you know, this kind of cruise control form… 2 times in the scene
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:05 Mike Krieger I was a huge, uh, early proponent of GitHub copilot.
$600M AUM, 44 Bets, and a 30x Return Unicorn: Stellaris Venture Partners on Picking Winners Early
- ▶ 1:13:05 Alok Goyal The last part Siddharth is that, I mean, as we are seeing today, the new version of, uh, uh, um, GitHub Copilot got released, right?
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:08 Harry Stebbings I see so much of the debate going around about, hey, like software engineering and like engineering, it's like the first place that AI is going to really dominate, and you're starting to see that with Copilot and a lot of the tools that we…