GitHub Copilot
part of GitHub includes GitHub Copilot Chat, GitHub Copilot Workspace
28 statements across 9 episodes · 9 bullish · 5 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Sep 4, 2022 by Ryan J. Salva · said 119 times in 17 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (76), Ryan J. Salva (21), Inbal Shani (5), Tamar Yehoshua (2), Michael Truell (2), Marc Andreessen (2), Kevin Weil (2), Dan Shipper (2)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 20 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf
- Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
- Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 47 mentions in 3 episodes 16 per episode
Everything said about GitHub Copilot, oldest first
Sep 4, 2022 bullish
Salva: AI will be core to the developer toolchain by 2026
“Students build not only the kind of the tool, the software that the business needs, and then get to put that on their resume and their, you know, application for college and university, but they also get to learn by kind of using the tools that likely are goin…”
Sep 4, 2022 neutral
Sep 4, 2022 neutral
Salva: AI code completion latency sweet spot is roughly 200 milliseconds
“It seems like right now it's around 200 milliseconds. So depending upon where you're in the world, your latency can go up or down a little bit from there, but it seems like the sweet spot is somewhere around 200 milliseconds.”
Sep 4, 2022 positive
Salva: Copilot sustains developer flow by eliminating Stack Overflow and doc lookups
“Copilot.
Helps developers stay in the flow by bringing all of that information into the editor, preventing them from having to go check out documentation or watch a tutorial or go to Stack Overflow and, you know, either find an answer or worse, have to ask a q…”
Sep 4, 2022 negative
Sep 4, 2022 neutral
Sep 4, 2022 neutral
GitHub Copilot launched without content filters before adopting basic word blocklists
“When we first started out, we didn't really have any filter on Copilot whatsoever in the very, very, very early days. And then eventually we're like, okay. It needs to be slightly more controlled experience. We need to edit out, you know, some of the most egre…”
Sep 4, 2022 neutral
Salva: Copilot originated inside GitHub Next's exploratory R&D team
“The original team that was working on co-pilot At GitHub was, you know, it's a team that we call GitHub Next. And essentially their job is to work on second and third horizon projects. What some folks might call moonshots, right? Things that we never really ex…”
Sep 4, 2022 positive
Sep 4, 2022
Salva: GitHub embedded Copilot researchers into production squads for knowledge transfer
“We made an intentional decision to take some of the researchers who were in the next team and for a finite period of time, move them over to create a new EPD squad, right? We want them to be researchers, but we need to do knowledge transfer, and we need to act…”
Sep 4, 2022
Salva: GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI's Codex, derived from GPT-3
“Copilot is essentially that magnified by many lines of code. It is multi-line autocomplete that is
Fundamentally powered by an AI model called Codex, which is a derivative of another kind of one that you might be familiar with, GPT-III.”
Sep 4, 2022 neutral
May 4, 2023 bullish
Generating test boilerplate with GitHub Copilot profoundly improves overall code quality
“It's actually using co-pilot to generate your test cases turns out to be extremely valuable. There's a reasonable amount of boilerplate that is kind of like repeated code and concepts that goes into writing good tests, but you also have to reason very carefull…”
Jul 30, 2023 negative
Forsgren: AI Coding Tools Should Free Up Cognitive Space, Not Prompt Layoffs
“Anyone who's looking at that and like, dear CEOs or whoever who are like, now I can lay off half my workforce. That's not what this is about, right? It's not about taking a task and cutting your time in half because now what we've enabled is your ability to do…”
Dec 1, 2023
GitHub began prototyping Copilot with OpenAI's GPT models in 2020
“In 2020, we had a group of GitHub engineers that were working with the design team and we opened AI GPT to really figure out how we're going to build that and how it can work to help developers to do their job more efficiently, more productively, improve their…”
Dec 1, 2023
Dec 1, 2023 positive
Dec 1, 2023 negative
Dec 1, 2023 positive
GitHub CPO: Sketch-to-code AI is for collaboration, not building production software
“I'm thinking about that as a better collaboration tool versus a production tool. Because right now, a lot of the time where we see challenges in articulating ideas is the communication. It's the clarity of thoughts. So if we can leverage AI to improve collabor…”
Dec 1, 2023 positive
Dec 1, 2023 negative
Dec 1, 2023 bullish
Dec 19, 2024 neutral
Dec 19, 2024 neutral
May 1, 2025 negative
May 18, 2025 neutral
Chennapragada: Independent AI coding tools do not directly threaten GitHub's ecosystem
“And I think the, yeah, the idea again is that, you know, code generation as a tool will unlock lot more products. I mean, they're not all competitors to the fact of they're not all kind of you know doing the same job. I think when you're at the end of the day,…”
Aug 17, 2025 bullish