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⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
- ▶ 1:47 Ahmad Awais This is year and three, more than a year before GitHub Copilot was a thing, right?
Satya Nadella on AI: @NoPriorsPodcast x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build 2026
- ▶ 9:27 Satya Nadella Whether it's get up copilot or the security copilot, the stuff we showed with M dash, or even the discovery for science, it doesn't matter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:43 Satya Nadella Because little, you know, GitHub Copilot was constructed at a per user level before we understood even.
- ▶ 25:39 Satya Nadella You know, something like, um, GitHub Copilot to me, and especially the new sessions app or the new app, has just made it so much more possible for you to have agency over artifacts that you felt you couldn't touch before, right?
GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- ▶ 6:17 Kyle Daigle And so everyone uses like ChatGPT or Copilot or Claude or whatever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:26 Shawn Wang Uh, let's talk about Copilot. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:56 Kyle Daigle The better underlying models that we have, uh, you know, post-terrain, better, uh, next set of suggestions with post-terrain language specific models, all this stuff that kind of like sits in the ether of GitHub co-pilot is code… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:56 Kyle Daigle The better underlying models that we have, uh, you know, post-terrain, better, uh, next set of suggestions with post-terrain language specific models, all this stuff that kind of like sits in the ether of GitHub co-pilot is code… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:30 Shawn Wang IQ people next to the co-pilot people.
Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
AI-Native Engineering: 100% adoption, 5x search throughput, unlimited tokens — Mikhail Parakhin
- ▶ 6:25 Mikhail Parakhin Tools that require IDE, such as GitHub, Copilot, or Cursor, they're not exactly shrinking, but they're not growing as fast, like a red, red line is, is the IDE kind of tool.
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 6:14 Shawn Wang Because that became co-pilot immediately.
Dylan Patel Explains the AI War While Cooking | In-Context Cooking
- ▶ 21:35 Dylan Patel , they use GitHub Copilot, they use Codex.
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 1:18:56 Doug O'Laughlin It's just like, I mean, my favorite thing is that how GitHub Copilot is like number one. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- ▶ 1:22:31 Shawn Wang Um, and a lot of it, I think is my reflection on coding agents in terms of like, uh, we started with Copilot, which was tab autocomplete.
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
- ▶ 2:45 unnamed speaker Like, we started out with Copilot, obviously GitHub started the Copilot trend.
- ▶ 13:16 Jared Palmer Like we are all about model choice now and like making sure that, uh, and what's cool is that like, it's, we also have copilot, which is our harness.
- ▶ 13:24 Jared Palmer And co-pilot CLI, but we also have third party partners like Cloud Code and Codex and Cognition now, like in, uh, Agent HQ.
- ▶ 23:48 unnamed speaker Yeah, I think a lot of people are, uh, on the code gen side, the code agent side, a lot of people are trying to think about, all right, we had this evolution from co-pilot to, like,
⚡ Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules + AIE CODE Preview
- ▶ 5:23 unnamed speaker Just on the history of AI coding, I had heard that actually Google had an internal version of Copilot, or something like that, that was never released.
⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- ▶ 14:06 Vivek Ravisankar So we took a lot of inspiration from the Cursors of the world or the Windsor of the world, whatever it is, like, in terms of, like, IDE, Copilot next to it, building code repositories and making this as real as possible. 2 times in the scene
Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)
- ▶ 4:46 Alessio Fanelli Uh, I, I think early on in the podcast, most people would say Midjourney was their favorite AI product, and another half of people would say GitHub Copilot.
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ▶ 3:38 Quinn Slack First, it started with Copilot, and then, Cody, we were really good at Chatrag, and then Cursor and Windsurf showed that kind of IDE forks and partially agentic things could get better and better, and then, you know, the next generation,…
- ▶ 7:14 Thorsten Ball They said like, um, I don't know what it was, but, um, they were basically saying, blah, blah, blah, makes cursor look like GitHub Copilot, you know, like makes it look old and boring and enterprisey. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:58 Quinn Slack Sometimes that's copilot or cursor and amp is more expensive. 2 times in the scene
⚡️Launching Ona: Coding Agent with Fully Sandboxed Cloud Environment
- ▶ 4:43 Johannes (Johannes Landgraf) So what happened is we, as, as my thing, co-pilot really started to become successful, we realized that if the future of a Gentic
Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- ▶ 1:02:24 Greg Brockman And so then you would have a mechanical engineer come and fix it, and that team went on to go do what became GitHub Copilot, which is obviously an amazing feat and a real accomplishment and something that they were able to move so much…
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 3:00 Shawn Wang And then from out of nowhere, you cloned GitHub Copilot.
- ▶ 9:34 Varun Mohan Products like Copilot as being extremely valuable and something that is generating a lot of value to professionals. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:41 Varun Mohan So I guess, I guess the story was, I guess four or five months ago, we sort of decided internally as a team, we were like very early adopters of Copilot. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:49 Shawn Wang Copilot costs 10 dollars a month. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:50 Shawn Wang And you, you said something to the order of, and this maybe gets into Copilot for X, which is something that everybody is keen about because they see the success of Copilot. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:22 Varun Mohan So I think there was a great study and I'm not sure if it's possible to link it, but there was a great study about Copilot actually that came out.
- ▶ 24:09 Alessio Fanelli So Copilot for X, what are X's that you think are interesting for people to build in? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:32 Shawn Wang You know, Copilot just launched, just announced enterprise, like Copilot for teams or Copilot for enterprise.
- ▶ 26:32 Shawn Wang You know, Copilot just launched, just announced enterprise, like Copilot for teams or Copilot for enterprise.
- ▶ 27:54 Shawn Wang So co-pilot is twelve billion parameters.
- ▶ 42:37 Shawn Wang So, so GitHub Copilot, uh, the extension does this thing where they, they like, they'll set a timer and then within like five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, they'll check in to see if the code is still there.
- ▶ 55:14 Kevin Hou And you'll note that this is even higher than tools like chat GPT and GitHub copilot.
- ▶ 1:18:23 Scott Wu If you think about a lot of these Q&A products, if you think about, you know, writing marketing copy or answering customer support or even GitHub Copilot and Cursor and products like that, you know, obviously very, you know, a lot of these…
- ▶ 2:05:10 Alessio Fanelli And Copilot was 10 bucks a month.
- ▶ 2:20:48 Shawn Wang I specifically like the Copilot for X thing, because everyone, it was so hot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:44:31 Kevin Hou Copilot was the state of the art.
- ▶ 3:21:36 Kevin Hou But then once services like Copilot, like Codium, they launched, then devs got really excited.
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 6:06 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan That's really different from how the, you know, the other things at the time were things like copilot and cursor and Adr.
- ▶ 11:05 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan And I think Klein complements all these things really well in that, you know, we get the opportunity to kind of figure out and, and work really closely with our users to figure out what the best agentic experience is, whereas, you know,…
- ▶ 1:11:23 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan I feel like Klein kind of stands out in the space for having, for being a little bit more humanized than something like, you know, a cursor agent or a copilot-pilot or a cascade.
Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra
- ▶ 7:51 Antonio Scandurra So this idea that like, you know, for the longest time there's been like copilot style suggestions where like copilot suggests edits at your cursor.
The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- ▶ 24:55 Dharmesh Shah Uh, in the GitHub co-pilot to like, oh, finish this particular thing and hit tab to a, oh, I sort of know your file or whatever.
Solve coding, solve AGI [Reflection.ai launch w/ CEO Misha Laskin]
- ▶ 17:42 Misha Laskin Yeah, so the kinds of problems we want to solve are maybe first just thinking about what, there are multiple form factors for a coding product, and the form factor that is most common today is, you know, this kind of cruise control form… 2 times in the scene
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
- ▶ 39:25 unnamed speaker So the, the, the level ones was co-pilot.
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- ▶ 28:08 unnamed speaker And Copilot was 10 bucks a month.
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 36:42 Itamar Friedman I, I, I think Copilot is an amazing tool, but I'm quoting others, meaning GitHub Copilot, that they see not so good retention of GitHub Copilot and Enterprise. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:56 Eric Simons AI coding thing you can get, maybe other than Copilot, but, like, we were overrun by support tickets, and it just, and just the sheer volume of people coming in, it's just laws of supply and demand. 5 times in the scene
The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Computer Use, and Building SOTA Agents — with Erik Schluntz, Anthropic
- ▶ 1:23 Erik Schluntz I had been writing a lot of my code with things like Copilot, and I was like, wow, this is actually really cool.
- ▶ 34:31 Shawn Wang Copilot also does the plan stage before it writes code.
Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- ▶ 7:44 Drew Houston So what you see really working is the level one autonomy in the AI world would be like the tab autocomplete and co-pilot, right? 2 times in the scene
[Paper Club] Berkeley Function Calling Paper Club! — Sam Julien, Writer
- ▶ 30:40 unnamed speaker I'm a huge Gorilla shill and kind of a Shashir fan, you know, um, but that's, uh, the Gorilla CLI is really helpful, um, because I, I was using GitHub CLI, or the GitHub Copilot CLI for quite some time, um, but Gorilla CLI is, like, open 2 times in the scene
Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- ▶ 50:25 Michelle Pokrass Yeah, I'm gonna be real, I'm still VS Code co-pilot. 2 times in the scene
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- ▶ 6:58 Michelle Pokrass I was a daily user of Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and I was, like, so blown away at the quality of this thing. 3 times in the scene
Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
- ▶ 5:48 Alistair Pullen And co-pilot was start. 2 times in the scene
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
- ▶ 21:43 Alessio Fanelli People just don't have them, you know, and just, they cannot attract the talent to do it, and similarly in a software development, you have Copilot, which is the augmentation product, and then you have um, sweep.dev, any of these products,…
Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- ▶ 1:20:14 Soumith Chintala Like, G, like GitHub Copilot style usage is not captured in, say, like, LMSYS things.
The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
- ▶ 19:13 David Hsu Uh, and so, you know, you've probably seen the Copilot, you've seen sort of so many other coding assistants, uh, like, you know, stuff like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:25 unnamed speaker Uh, in the survey, 58 people said they used it less, uh, and 94% of them said they used it less because of Copilot and ChatGPT, which, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:28 David Hsu Uh, now that said, I think if you're able to use Trapship or Copilot, let's say, competently, we do do that as a plus, we don't view it as a minus, but if you only use Copilot and you aren't able to reason about, like, you know, how to… 4 times in the scene
The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw
- ▶ 48:37 Steve Ruiz And how we've seen with Copilot, et cetera, the challenge is more on the input side than the, the output side.
The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- ▶ 13:13 Shawn Wang Replet, uh, Find, and then of course there's Copilot, TabNine. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:28 Steve Yegge And, uh, they had a paper on duet, like from a year ago, and they were doing exactly what copilot was doing, which was, um, just pulling in the local context.
- ▶ 26:20 Beyang Liu Where if you, if you use, like, the at workspace thing that supposedly provides, like, code-based level context, um, it has, like, an agentic approach where, uh, you kind of look at how it's behaving, and it, it feels like they're making…
- ▶ 41:32 Beyang Liu A lot of our customers are choosing Kodi over Copilot and other competitors because we have an explicit guarantee that we don't do any of that, and that we've done that from day one.
- ▶ 1:20:16 Shawn Wang Um, and I pulled it into Copilot, didn't work,
The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
- ▶ 1:11:11 Jeremy Howard Training language models, thanks to the help of Codex and Copilot and whatever.
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- ▶ 10:48 Eugene Cheah It's, and now in hindsight, it's now basically copilot. 4 times in the scene