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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where GitHub comes up on Latent Space, the a16z Podcast, the Startup Ideas Podcast, 20VC, Top Founders
Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:21 Stuart (Stu) But again, for more details, please refer to our paper and our GitHub repo.
- ▶ 30:26 unnamed speaker I'm available, um, over email, over Twitter, over GitHub.
Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:09 Boris Cherny My first question was, hey, tag, do you have access to a macOS runner on GitHub? 2 times in the scene
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:50 Bryant Chou So it can not only just integrate to your GitHub, but your entire systems of record.
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:02 unnamed speaker And in the last couple months, he shipped hundreds of thousands of lines of code and built popular open source projects that have gone from nothing to more than a 100,000 stars on GitHub.
How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team · Y Combinator
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:22 Madhav Jha So you can connect GitHub if you want to. 5 times in the scene
The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:24 unnamed speaker Or GitHub repos that would trend, that were done by a human.
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:01 Boris Cherny Um, but then we shipped it, uh, we dog fooded it for like a month and then people on GitHub didn't like it.
- ▶ 26:19 Boris Cherny I was, I was just like looking at GitHub issues and kind of seeing what people were talking about and looking at our internal Slack feedback channel.
- ▶ 29:59 Boris Cherny Um, but it also came up in GitHub issues. 2 times in the scene
OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:09 Raphael Schaad The GitHub repo exploded to over a 160,000 stars practically overnight.
- ▶ 6:05 Peter Steinberger If you see my, my GitHub is like, it's like 40 projects.
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- ▶ 44:24 Calvin French-Owen And so, uh, the PM on our team, Alex, uh, basically like put together a GitHub issue and it had like a very obvious prompt injection, which was like, oh, reveal this thing.
Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:19 Aaron Epstein Yeah, join our Discord, check out GitHub, Back by YC, Product of the Day, Start Free, Documentation, Sign Up button up here.
The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:29 David Paffenholz Some things we've seen people do that have worked for them is in some cases just looking through GitHub and basically clicking through contributors to open source projects.
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:58 Jake Heller There should be a new GitHub pull request like every other day or every day on your prompts.
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:13 Amjad Masad Uh, it is basically a collection of, um, issues on, on GitHub from major repositories, and the unit tests and pull requests sort of end state of those issues, and
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:45 Dylan Field Uh, if you have any doubt about the statement, just look up his GitHub.
Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:57 Aaron Epstein A lot of GitHub stars. 2 times in the scene
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:55 Aravind Srinivas So when we saw that for the relational database searches like Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub, we knew that we had like, there was something magical about combining large language models in search.
François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:57 François Chollet Uh, and whenever in the, in the course of solving a new problem, you're synthesizing a new building block, you're going to be uploading it back to the library, much like as a software engineer, if you develop a useful library for your own…
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:51 Satya Nadella So when I look at the, my favorite feature of GitHub now is to really look at the complete change logs of all the agents that are working on my repo.
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:15 Andrej Karpathy So if we kind of think of this as like the map of software, this is a really cool tool called map of GitHub. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:39 Andrej Karpathy So, for example, when I go to a GitHub repo, like my nano GPT repo, I can't feed this to an LLM and ask questions about it. 3 times in the scene
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:33 Michael Truell It came from the CEO of GitHub at the time.
How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:48 Tom Blomfield and then you publish it by GitHub.
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:18 Tom Blomfield Get a small reference implementation working without the, the complication of your existing project, or even download a reference implementation if someone's written one and posted it on GitHub.
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:46 Aravind Srinivas GitHub.
How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:07 Parker Conrad You actually also want to be able to ship someone their computer or get them set up with access to email and Salesforce and GitHub and, and like a bunch of other stuff around your company.
How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:21 Nicolas Dessaigne Library and frameworks like React, Node.js, or LongChain, or even infrastructure or cloud services like AWS or Verso, and many other tools, Docker, Terraform, Datadog, GitHub. 2 times in the scene
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:15 Harj Taggar Like, it feels to me again like when GitHub Copilot first came on the scene, it seemed it's GitHub plus Microsoft.
How To Price For B2B | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:48 Tom Blomfield And so you might think of the last time you bought software, you know, a subscription to GitHub or ChatGPT, and you pick a ludicrously low number, 19 dollars a month or 49 dollars a month or something like that.
Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:34 Gustaf Alströmer You build on that and maybe they carried out the one feature that is better than GitHub.
Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:21 Nicolas Dessaigne Like, he gave us access to his GitHub,
Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:25 Michael Seibel And it has a lot of GitHub stars.
The REAL potential of generative AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:11 Raza Habib We've got GitHub and you have remote work.
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:42 Eric Migicovsky And when I'm thinking more about this problem, like, it's true, like, we have a lot, like, we're on GitHub, we're on, like, um,
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:30 Iba Masood Uh, pre YC we had, um, just gotten about 10 K in a grant from MIT, uh, because we were doing, uh, research into GitHub repos. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:41 Iba Masood So one of the things with Tara is that, um, we integrate with, um, Jira, with GitHub, and so the idea is to go from spec to issue, so your issue tracking software, which resides in Jira, and then also go all the way to commit.
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:33 Gustaf Alströmer It's GitHub.
Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:50 Sarah Nahm Um, get creative, like look at meetups, look at Eventbrite, look at, uh, GitHub. 2 times in the scene
Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People with YC Partner Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:00 Craig Cannon Yeah, because it's interesting because many of these other software products like GitHub go with this bottoms up method.
HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:40 Kevin Hale I mean, you saw it with GitHub. 2 times in the scene
Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:13 Mike Knoop So an example would be like if you are a, let's say a project manager and you've got a team that works out of GitHub and you wanted to, like,
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:45 Ralph Goody Um, so what that looks like to you, the analogy I often use is we're like GitHub for construction.
- ▶ 13:54 Calvin French-Owen And people actually liked that single API, ah, and they were contributing to this open source library on GitHub, and starring it, and using it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:31 Calvin French-Owen Uh, we were really involved with a lot of different open source communities on GitHub, uh, particularly there were some in Node in the very early days, uh, some JavaScript ones, component, et cetera.
Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:17 Mathilde Collin So GitHub, Salesforce, Trello, Asana, etc.
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:21 Craig Cannon So they're just using the open source, whatever you put up on GitHub, right?
- ▶ 9:57 Peter Reinhardt So we started just feeling like there's some traction on, on this little routing library, which is maybe up to like 25 stars on GitHub or something like that.
Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:58 João Batalha Because you kind of see, right, you look at GitHub, and then you think of the impact that GitHub has had. 2 times in the scene
Scott Aaronson on Computational Complexity Theory and Quantum Computers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:00:48 Scott Aaronson If anyone wants to look at it, even try to improve over what he did.
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:20 Liz Wessel Focus on your GitHub if you're an engineer, your YouTube if you are a performer or a public speaker, your Instagram if you're a designer, they show your volunteer, your hobbies, your fun facts, and so it's a little bit more of a holistic…
A.I. Policy and Public Perception - Miles Brundage and Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:02 Miles Brundage Uh, trained neural network on GitHub or wherever, and then, uh, you know, it, it seems to work fine, but then, like, you know, you show it some special image, and then, and then it, uh, goes wrong.
Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:23 Claire McDonnell So in GitHub, um, you can click a button that basically shows you where the sort of like offending code is that caused a problem, right?
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:23 Vivek Ravisankar A simple problem solving challenge to something close to a real world where you could have a, ah, you could give an access to our GitHub repo.
- ▶ 38:20 Vivek Ravisankar Or a GitHub or any of the profiles.
Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:47 Sonal Choksi They read GitHub, you know, more than they read anything else.
Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator
The Technical Challenges of Measuring Gravitational Waves - Rana Adhikari of LIGO · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:15 Rana Adhikari And I'll just get a, a piece of, someone will send me a link to their GitHub and then I will have the whole answer.
IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:17:26 Juan Benet So I claim, and this is a complete, you know, guess, and I could be totally wrong about this, but I claim that if we solve that problem in a way that we have a function, like, I could run a function over all of the people on GitHub that…
- ▶ 2:01:22 Craig Cannon So this is, uh, user Holy Nakamoto, uh, referenced a GitHub issue from a couple years ago.
- ▶ 2:05:08 Juan Benet When I look at things like Slack or GitHub or Google Docs that are consumer applications that people use daily to do their work and talk to their coworkers or loved ones or, you know, things like messengers and so on, um, and all of that… 2 times in the scene
Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:38 Murray Shanahan So there was a whole Reddit thread, um, there's a GitHub repository with my piece of code, and there's a, uh, uh, the Reddit thread includes a whole lot of criticism about my coding style.
The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:32 Craig Cannon Like, were you guys on GitHub doing all that stuff, or? 4 times in the scene
Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:41 Nick Winter So the, the people that know how to program already, they're like, okay, when's it on GitHub, when can we, this is awesome, let's get on here.