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“So I, because I'm also doing the marketing, I have two repositories that are both local folders and sync to GitHub. And so what I've done is I've built all of the technical documentation into the repository. Of my application, and then I have, ah, I have a set…”

“We're not using issues. We're not using pull requests. We're barely on GitHub actions, and we're looking to get off of that.”

“And the first thing I would build is a growth repo. Yeah, I know it sounds a little bit nerdy but you know, even if you're non-technical, I believe you can do it. So you're going to want to go and create a GitHub repo or honestly just a structured folder. Ah, …”

“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.”

“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?”

“Basically, the model was tasked to solve this attack, this, like, to attack and to penetrate this subnetwork, and what it decided to do, it decided to get one of the maintainer of a library that could be used To operate this activity directory to merge like ma…”

“And you can see what, you know, the average here is, is sort of this 22 to 25 PRs a day, right? And sometimes, you know, 40 a day.”

“When LLMs first started to become a thing, I remember getting a phone call from the CEO of GitHub basically saying, I need a bunch of GPUs. We've now gotten LLMs to be able to do code completion, even though, you know, we're part of Microsoft and everything yo…”

“Turing does this, where we are automatically crawling open source GitHub repos at massive scale We are also acquiring code assets from startups and other companies, and we are running those repos and figuring out pull requests where the test cases don't pass f…”

“I find AI in like what most of this like launch here is, is actually like less building forward. It's actually like. A recursive loop backwards. I'm always looking at what had happened first, like go back through the week and tell me what we did, what worked, …”

“What we've actually ended up doing is We've built like a set of you know, skills internally. We have like, we each have our set of skills and we've just been distributing even to the non-technical folks, the CLI. And then effectively we're just giving it acces…”

“So we use teams for video communication, like, but we don't use it for chat. We get home for a long, long history, right? We always talk about chat ops and like, everything is built into slack, like every command, every flow, even though you have been acquired…”

“I built like a little app just to make it so I could look at some of the information in a SQLite database more easily. And I ultimately built this entire presentation without touching any of it. And I was like, okay, I'm just going to present this to our CRO, …”

“We have a new underlying agent containerization service. It's like through, we're using it under the hood. It's through Azure. They recently announced it. The Azure like dev compute, but it's like very fast very fast compute to be able to like spin up you know…”

“Every move that we make to make it more secure will break a lot of people.”

“I think the reason why there's not a single answer is ultimately we're trying to codify trust. We're trying to say like, okay, if Sean reviews this, I'm going to trust it because you're Sean or you're the senior dev or you're the whatever. And right now when w…”

“I think the thing that I don't love about stars or commit counts or anything else is like, ultimately, even with all of the various like abuse and de-spamming and deduplication work that we do or anti-abuse, you know, work that we do, these are all like not ac…”

“Oh, we're over two hundred million now.”

“If you create code, if you have an idea and you create it into some way of like, I'm going to run it and use the app right now, you may still use AI in that moment, but that's okay. At some point you're going to do the next thing.”

“When we put a veneer on top of something, we still always show you the code that's kind of like a tenant. We're never gonna, like, hide the code from you ever because what, like, yeah, it's the whole point, you know.”

“What we learned with things like Spark is that really the value of Spark for most devs is, like, easy runtime. And you may have a runtime or a host that you're going to use for that, or you just build something and run it. But like the package of making that l…”

“And now we're doing more in a month than we did in a year last year.”

“Some of the growth issues which is why we're, I was talking about you know, pushing hard on more CPUs is in actions in particular more tools, more agents, more PRs mean more builds in more CPUs. And so we are expanding through not just our data center, but obv…”

“The place that we continue to have pain is in permissioning. And so, right now, many of our permissioning layers sit into a database that we, like, internally call MySQL one, and old Hubbers will know what I'm talking about.”

“Also have now had, now have like a single underlying SDK and harness for our coding agent, you know, co-pilot ultimately the new CLI, the new desktop app, cloud agents that use the same SDK.”

“These little, like oversimplifying it context engines are wild good, and, like, we've given them to our developers at GitHub. We've given them to employees at GitHub as we've used these tools to be able to just ask questions around Everything that you have in …”

“Agents are pushing a ton of code. You don't have enough humans to read all that code, and so things are slipping by, things are getting in, and one of them was a vulnerability that gets injected into an open source package that everybody relies on and uses, an…”

“Basically Wiz found that they were able to do a single git push of a file and gain access to every single repository hosted on the platform.”

“You look at code commits on GitHub, which is the leading code repository. There were one billion code commits last year. In the past month, there's been 1.1 billion.”

“And OpenClaw became the fastest growing GitHub project on GitHub. Like, you look at Linux, it surpassed Linux, it surpassed React in a few weeks, right?”

“This is exactly why, you know, GitHub is having problems right now because the number of people using GitHub has skyrocketing exponentially and it's really just people's agencies in GitHub.”

“What we saw from our customers was that they were all trying to figure out how to do versioning. Everyone is doing it in different ways. There were some really weird ways where people were doing that. And the reason was that GitHub as is Was an overhead. Like …”

“I think the, it's funny, because, like, I think GitHub's original sin is that it's like almost a series of broken pointers. It's like you have essentially this thing, and then you clone it, and then, okay, great, like, I've just lost That whole upstream, right…”

“I think this year is the year that TypeScript overtook Python in the GitHub survey, and I didn't really foresee that coming.”

“In a previous life, I led design and product at GitHub and GitHub designers before LLMs contributed to GitHub. I think in the top contributors to GitHub itself, like, 10% were designers.”

“Our design team made a whole separate GitHub repo called the design playground. And it's basically just to create a bunch of like helper components and for quickly throwing together UIs and it's become like actually quite sophisticated. Like it has like an age…”

“We disregarded it basically immediately because we assumed that, you know, eventually everything that is just digital and AI will be able to do as well. Yeah, exactly. So an AI will be able to have a GitHub account and we'll be able to post Test and owner acco…”

“Data labeling companies are buying old GitHub repos of handwritten code. To train their models on. And they're paying a lot of money for like artisanal human written code.”

“I also believe that You know, forking a business, like how you fork a repo on GitHub is going to be very common.”

“GitHub gets 92% of all of the questionnaires they receive answered through Vanta.”

“That company was run very independently. Like, I literally quit Microsoft. Like, your contract ended. It was like, we used all Google tools. Everything was built on AWS. Everything was Zoom. When Satya sent emails to the company, they didn't go to anybody that…”

“When you're doing like a technical sale, like GitHub, you know, the SE team plays a huge part. Like AEs are critically important for setting up the relationship, navigating the org chart, doing all those pieces, but building that tight feedback loop of underst…”

“You know, with GitHub Actions, that was, like, one of the products I built while I was there. You know, we were doing usage-based pricing. It was the first time GitHub had ever done usage-based pricing on anything”

“We actually racked our own Macs in our own data centers there.”

“A difference in the CPO role when how you think about the product versus some of the other team members is just, you're probably spending a lot more time with customers than some of the other people are like, we have amazing go-to-market leaders at GitHub, but…”

“Talked to Nat, and he's like, hey, we've got GitHub Actions, and he was like, you have, like, nine months to get this to GA. And there's like no question of like, could I ask for more time or not? But it's like basically build it and get it to GA in nine month…”

“We do have skills as part of this container format, which was just called plugins. And plugins are available both for Cloud Code and Cloud Cowork, the same format. And you can install plugins. This works in Cowork today. You can basically say, I'm going to add…”

“Karpathy also launched agent hub. What is agent hub? It's GitHub for humans. Sorry. GitHub is for humans. Agent hub is for agents. So it's basically a GitHub for agents and agents form collaboration platform, a very promising direction.”

“Agent first collaboration platform, a bare git repo, a message board designed for a swarm of agents working on the same code base. Think of it like a stripped down GitHub. Where there's no main branches, no main branch, no PRs, no merges, a sprawling DAG of co…”

“The GitHub, the auto research GitHub repo. And wow, 25,000 stars already, so this is crazy. It's really growing, growing quick.”

“So now it's, I think, number one GitHub stars of all time. It passed React, it passed Linux.”

“Pulsia is like a series of like autonomous agents specialized in different categories, right? So you have like a, you have an engineering agent that's like really good at code and it's like set up to code that has access to like a web server, a GitHub account,…”

“Initially we're very focused on Vanity metrics on GitHub. Those, especially for open source, are very important because these vanity metrics, I don't care about how many stars I have, but I know that whenever I look at a project, whenever I look at the library…”

“New website creation is up 40% year over year. New iOS apps are up 50%. GitHub pushes are up 35% in the US, 30% in the UK. These metrics were flat for years before late 20, 24. And we're now seeing like jumps in the production of all kinds of different softwar…”

“Just in January, it went from four percent of or two percent of commits on GitHub to four percent of GitHub commits were done by Cloud Code, right?”

“So this is our GitHub chart to be chart to be, and we just passed 21,000 stars on GitHub.”

“I love watching exponential trends. And I've never seen one even remotely at this rate. You would art, you know, four percent in like two weeks.”

“I sandbagged the ever-living share of that. I just believe 25 is, Very, like, I, like, it's like a, the rate it's on is like, whatever, 50 or something like that, but I think, I feel, I wanted to give a 95 confidence interval. I think 25 is within the 95 confi…”

“Pushes to GitHub, which grew roughly 10 to 12% in prior years, jumped 41%. Between Q. Three, 24 and Q. Three, 25.”

“And so then like in the first two weeks, it was like trending across all of GitHub top 10 repo across every language and Spotify and Oracle and Reddit and X and these like large companies were starting to deploy it and start the repo.”