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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…”
Crivello: Every major remote success story lost to an in-person competitor
“In every one of these examples, you have a co-located counterfactual that is sometimes orders of magnitude bigger.”
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…”
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 …”
Patel: Claude Code's share of GitHub commits doubled to 4% in January
“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?”
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…”
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…”
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…”
Slack says Amp abandoned GitHub issues and pull requests
“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.”
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.”
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…”
O'Laughlin: Claude Code captured 4% of GitHub commits in two weeks
“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.”
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…”
Autonomous AI agents require vastly more reliable infrastructure to succeed
“Agents will really only work where we get to not only like the more intelligent models, but better reliability of the infrastructure providers, right?”
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.”
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…”
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…”
Mohan: Switching SCM tools is harder than switching databases
“GitHub has very high switching costs or source code management tools, right? Because you actually need to switch over all the dependent systems on this workflow software. It's much harder than even switching off of a database.”
Mohan: GitHub might have under 10% full penetration in Fortune 500
“GitHub might have less than 10% penetration of the Fortune 500, full penetration. It's very small.”
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…”
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, …”
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…”
Daigle: Every security enhancement made to NPM breaks many developers' workflows
“Every move that we make to make it more secure will break a lot of people.”
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.”
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…”
Daigle: GitHub processes more activity in a month than all last year
“And now we're doing more in a month than we did in a year last year.”
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…”
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, …”
Daigle: GitHub will never hide source code in low-code abstractions
“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.”
Daigle: GitHub has surpassed 200 million registered developers
“Oh, we're over two hundred million now.”
Swyx: TypeScript overtook Python in the annual GitHub developer survey
“I think this year is the year that TypeScript overtook Python in the GitHub survey, and I didn't really foresee that coming.”
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…”
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…”
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…”
GitHub launches Agent HQ at the GitHub Universe conference
“And today we launched Asian HQ among other things here at universe.”
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…”
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…”
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.”
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,…”
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…”
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…”
Daigle: GitHub Copilot tools and agents share a single unified SDK
“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.”
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…”
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 …”
Artificial Analysis open-sources minimalist agent harness Stirrup on GitHub
“We released that on, on GitHub yesterday. It's called Stirrup, so if people want to check it out, and it's a great you know, base for, you know, generalist building a generalist agent.”
Microsoft CoreAI unites Visual Studio, VS Code, GitHub, and Azure
“And so you think about the new core core AI organization, you've got Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and parts of Azure, all in one.”
Google Labs' Jules Partners with GitHub for Agent HQ
“Jules is, yeah, partnering with GitHub for the new agent HQ stuff, which we're excited about.”
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…”