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Epling: AI enables designers to build front-end experiences without technical depth
“Like now with AI, it's like hopefully going to get like, it's just getting more and more easier for people to do that without all that technical expertise.”
Epling: Post-acquisition GitHub ran independently on Google tools and AWS
“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…”
Epling: GitHub Actions was GitHub's first usage-based pricing product
“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”
Epling: GitHub racked its own Mac hardware in its own data centers
“We actually racked our own Macs in our own data centers there.”
Epling: Nat Friedman gave GitHub Actions a strict nine-month GA deadline
“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…”