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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
How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- ▶ 12:10 Sarah Wang Because you mentioned co-pilot.
How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
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.
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.
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?
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
- ▶ 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
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.