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57 statements across 28 episodes · 29 bullish · 9 bearish · 26 people on the record · first statement Oct 12, 2023 by Shawn Wang · said 638 times in 135 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shawn Wang (111), Kyle Daigle (64), Graham Neubig (22), Varun Mohan (20), Jared Palmer (19), Alessio Fanelli (17), Quinn Slack (14), Boris Cherny (11)
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2026 239 mentions in 38 episodes 6 per episode
- GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- Orbs: Shifting Coding to Cloud — Quinn Slack, Amp Code
- AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
- The Blueprint for Autonomous Work Agents | Gavriel Cohen, NanoClaw
- Satya Nadella on AI: @NoPriorsPodcast x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build 2026
- Exo: Harnesses should see their own code and logs — Alex Krentsel, UC Berekeley / Google Research
- 30 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 252 mentions in 58 episodes 4 per episode
- 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
- Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
- DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
- Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ⚡ Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules + AIE CODE Preview
- Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- The #1 SWE-Bench Verified Agent
- 50 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 118 mentions in 32 episodes 4 per episode
- Best of 2024 in Agents (from #1 on SWE-Bench Full, Prof. Graham Neubig of OpenHands/AllHands)
- 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
- The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
- Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- [Paper Club] SWE-Bench [OpenAI Verified/Multimodal] + MLE-Bench with Jesse Hu
- A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- 24 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 29 mentions in 7 episodes 4 per episode
- The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
- Powering your Copilot for Data - with Artem Keydunov from Cube.dev
- Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
Everything said about GitHub, oldest first
Oct 12, 2023 bullish
Wang: LlamaIndex reached 600,000 monthly downloads by September 2023
“And since you're fundraising Post, which was in June. And now it's September, so it's been about three months. You've actually gained 50% in, in terms of stars and followers. You've three X your download count to 600,000 a month and your discord membership has…”
Jan 5, 2024 positive
Feb 7, 2024 neutral
Hsu: AI coding assistants only speed up development by 10% to 20%
“If you talk to most engineers today, like, a lot of engineers do use Copilot but if you ask them, like, how much time does Copilot save you, it's not like coding is tenx faster than before. You know, coding is maybe, like, 10% faster, maybe 20% faster, or some…”
Mar 14, 2024
Aug 22, 2024 neutral
Aug 22, 2024 neutral
Cosine's Genie hooks into existing GitHub CI rather than building environments
“The model itself is not in charge of like setting up the code base and running it. So genie sits on top of GitHub. And if you have CI running GitHub, you have GitHub Actions and stuff like that, then Genie essentially makes a call out to that, runs your CI, se…”
Nov 15, 2024 positive
Crivello: Lindy uses an AI PR reviewer reading 40-page bug guidelines
“We have like a Lindy PR reviewer. And it's really handy because anytime any bug happens, so the Lindy reads our guidelines on Google Docs. By now the guidelines are like 40 pages long or something. And so every time any new kind of bug happens, we just go to t…”
Nov 15, 2024 bearish
Dec 13, 2024
Dec 13, 2024 neutral
Dec 25, 2024 negative
Neubig: Anthropic's MCP Duplicates Existing APIs With Little Added Value
“We already have an API for GitHub. So why do we need an MCP for GitHub, right? You know, like GitHub has an API. The GitHub API is evolving. We can look up the GitHub API documentation. So it seems like kind of duplicated a little bit. And also they have a set…”
Dec 25, 2024 bearish
Neubig: Most APIs Lack The Fine-Grained Authentication Needed For Agents
“For other things, they're totally not prepared to give that sort of fine-grained control. Like, most APIs don't have something like a fine-grained authentication token, and that goes into my, like, comment that we're gonna need to prepare the world for agents,…”
Jan 1, 2025 positive
Fanelli: LangChain and LlamaIndex usage grows on PyPI while CrewAI stays flat
“So if you look at, you know, like chain still growing. These are the last, last six months. Lama index still growing. What I've basically seen is like things that one, obviously these things have a commercial product. So there's like people buying this and sti…”
Jan 4, 2025
Apr 2, 2025 positive
Augment Code supports MCP alongside native GitHub, Linear, and Notion integrations
“Within augment, we have we have both MCP support for complete extensibility of tools, but we, we've also built in a few first party integrations and serve them as tools to the agent. So we have GitHub linear notion that, that we use internally, and then we hav…”
May 21, 2025
Silas Alberti: DeepWiki pairs AI codebase documentation with a research agent
“And I think it has like two components. It has the wiki itself, which is basically like AI generated Got documentation for any code base on GitHub, and then there's, like, the deep research agent that leverages both this, like, wiki, but also, like, any code f…”
May 21, 2025 positive
Alberti: Wiki pages are a better abstraction than pure RAG for codebase search
“If you just do like pure, like rack on like such a big base code files, it'll just be like pretty bad at a certain point, you know, on a single code base. Sure. I can see it, but Tens of thousands of code bases. It's tougher. But I think actually the wiki page…”
May 21, 2025 positive
Jul 18, 2025 neutral
Jul 28, 2025 negative
Mohan: HumanEval benchmark scores are inflated due to GitHub training contamination
“One of the issues that ends up coming up with things like human eval is contamination, because a lot of these things that train models end up training on all of GitHub. GitHub itself has human eval. So they end up Training on that, and then the numbers are arb…”
Aug 29, 2025 negative
Morcos: GitHub stars do not predict code quality for model training
“Stars are not a good predictor of whether data is useful for models or not. Like, I think that's, like, the most popular repos are not necessarily higher quality, at least with respect to do they improve a model's coding capabilities.”
Nov 10, 2025 positive
Nov 10, 2025 neutral
GitHub rejected stacked diff prototypes in 2020 and 2022 as too risky
“And there's been multiple attempts at this internally going back to like, 20, 20. And there was one very, very, very polished attempt to in 20, 22. And it just, I don't have all the context, so, but it was, there was a pretty good implementation. All of the wo…”
Nov 10, 2025 bullish
Nov 10, 2025 positive
GitHub is actively exploring stacked diff support for its product roadmap
“So anyway, we're, we had cold meetings internally already, and we're trying to weave it into the planning and the roadmap, and so hopefully we'll be able to share more updates soon, but like, it's a Top of the list known feature. And so, and like, we're workin…”
Nov 10, 2025 neutral
Nov 10, 2025 positive
Nov 10, 2025 bullish
GitHub Agent HQ supports third-party agents like Claude Code and Cognition
“Switching gears to GitHub. Like we are all about model choice now and like making sure that and what's cool is that like, it's, we also have copilot, which is our harness. And co-pilot CLI, but we also have third party partners like Cloud Code and Codex and Co…”
Nov 10, 2025 positive
GitHub announces custom agent support with prompts and MCPs in Agent HQ
“In addition to that, we also have custom agents that we announced today, too. So, like, you can work with prompts and stuff within your agent HQ and customize these agents for different tasks, and those can have MCPs and such.”
Jan 9, 2026 positive
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
Open-Sourcing Models on GitHub Is Insufficient for Biotech Industry Adoption
“One of the reasons why we realized that Bolts needed to be a company, it couldn't just be an academic project, is that putting a model on GitHub is definitely not enough To get, you know, chemists and biologists, you know, across, you know both academia, biote…”
Feb 24, 2026 bullish
Feb 24, 2026 bullish
O'Laughlin: AI Agents Will Write 25% to 50% of Public Code by Year-End
“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…”
Feb 26, 2026 bullish
Mar 17, 2026 positive
Rieseberg: Claude Code and Cowork share unified GitHub-installable plugin format
“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…”
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Notion's Design Team Builds Live Code Prototypes Instead of Static Mocks
“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…”
May 7, 2026 neutral
May 20, 2026 negative
Cooper: GitHub's original sin is that cloning creates broken pointers
“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…”
May 21, 2026 negative
Burazin: GitHub introduces too much overhead for AI agent inner loops
“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 …”
Jun 2, 2026 positive
Daigle: GitHub uses Microsoft Teams for video, but keeps Slack for ChatOps
“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…”
Jun 2, 2026 positive
Daigle stealthily generated GitHub's executive revenue deck using custom AI
“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, …”
Jun 2, 2026
Daigle: GitHub distributes internal AI CLI skills across non-technical staff
“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…”
Jun 2, 2026 neutral
Daigle: Replacing pull requests is hard because code review codifies social trust
“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…”
Jun 2, 2026 negative
Daigle: GitHub stars and commit counts remain fundamentally gamifiable despite anti-abuse efforts
“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…”
Jun 2, 2026 positive
Daigle: Using AI to build running apps qualifies you as a developer
“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.”
Jun 2, 2026 neutral
Jun 2, 2026 positive
Jun 2, 2026
Daigle: GitHub's permissioning bottlenecks stem from a legacy 'MySQL 1' database
“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.”
Jun 2, 2026 bullish
GitHub uses Azure dev compute for fast, isolated AI agent VMs
“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…”
Jun 2, 2026
Daigle: GitHub Actions expansion drives massive CPU demand across data centers
“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…”
Jun 2, 2026 bullish
Jun 2, 2026 neutral
Daigle: GitHub Spark's real value is easy runtime, not simple packaging
“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…”
Jun 2, 2026 positive
Daigle: LLMs are most valuable for retrospective workflow analysis
“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, …”
Jun 2, 2026 positive
Jun 2, 2026 positive
Jun 2, 2026 positive
GitHub deploys Microsoft's WorkIQ context engines to its internal developers
“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 …”