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OpenAI scraping GitHub repositories initially appeared to be a DoS attack
“And at the time, one of the teams that I was responsible for was GitHub's infrastructure team. You know, the team responsible for our data centers, our reliability, our uptime. And we noticed one day that we were getting hammered. I mean, absolutely hammered w…”
Rachitsky: Data labeling firms pay heavily for pre-AI GitHub repos
“Data labeling companies are buying old GitHub repos of handwritten code. To train their models on. And they're paying a lot of money for like artisanal human written code.”
Wu: OpenAI managers use internal ChatGPT for employee performance reviews
“We're doing performance reviews right now, and it's actually really easy to use ChatGPT with internal knowledge, hooked up to GitHub and like our Notion docs and Google docs. To give a, get a really good sense of what this person has done over the last 12, 12 …”
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,…”
Rauch: v0 is the next evolution of GitHub
“In many ways, I see this as the next evolution of GitHub.”
GitHub CPO predicts AI will evolve into hybrid, multi-model systems
“I might be wrong, but I think that eventually we will find ourselves in the world of hybrid models and multi-models where there will be several LLM models coming together because each one of them will have their own benefit. And then there's going to be a leas…”
Developer tool adoption requires integrating directly into workflows to protect flow
“Flow is just this incredibly important concept for developers and you want to strive to keep them in that flow for as long as possible. So the GitHub kind of pull requests are a great example of that. Someone can sign up for Snyk and they could theoretically b…”
Salva: Early R&D teams should not be held to revenue or production standards
“Don't expect any, anything out of them that is going to turn into a moneymaker or something that is going to be beholden to fundamentals around security, privacy, uptime, you know, accessibility, all that groupy kind of stuff upfront. They need space to create…”
GitHub provided its Arctic Code Vault to OpenAI for model training
“And so what we did is just like the year before that, we had actually created a snapshot. Of GitHub's public code for what we call the Arctic code vault, right?... Well, we took that same data snapshot and we brought it to our friends over at OpenAI to see lik…”
Shipper: GitHub infrastructure issues stem from exponential AI agent traffic
“This is exactly why, you know, GitHub is having problems right now because the number of people using GitHub has skyrocketing exponentially and it's really just people's agencies in GitHub.”
Ramanujam: AI coding tools will transition to outcome-based pricing
“If you think about coding as a overall category, like you know, back in the day with GitHub, everyone, they started with a seed based model, right? They've now moved to like the hybrid based pricing model with cursors and everyone else, but the natural move wo…”
Osika: GitHub suspended Lovable after it generated 15,000 daily repositories
“Lovable Earlier was always creating new projects on GitHub when someone used Lavable, and it was, we asked them, is it fine? Like, how, what's the limits here? They said, are there no limits? But once we started creating 15,000 projects per day, so there were …”
GitHub surveys find developers write code 55% faster using Copilot
“And they're writing codes based on our surveys, 55% faster.”
GitHub CPO: Raw coding speed fails as a developer productivity metric
“The most easiest one is time, but time is, it's funny what I'm going to say, but time is not quantifiable. As a success metrics, because you can write really bad code really fast.”
GitHub's finance, legal, and HR teams run their operations on GitHub
“So for example, our finance team is using discussions and posts and PRs and reposts to communicate our AR numbers and so on and so forth. We have our legal team using, we have our HR team. If they like it or not, it's a different question, but the idea is that…”
GitHub CPO: Developers should treat AI tools as technical abstraction layers
“There are areas that I will still go and write in C even today. I don't trust someone inverting metrics for me in an efficient way if it needs to run on a very small CPU. So I'll do that myself. On the other hand, there is going to be elements that I'm going t…”
GitHub CPO: Corporate research fails when it becomes overly academic or tactical
“What happens in teams that are not successful, at least from what I've seen, one, that the team is becoming basically another university. They write papers, but nothing is coming out of that. So nothing Find its walls to production. So if you don't introduce t…”
GitHub CPO: Most developers spend under 25% of their time coding
“So most developers spend less than 25, some say less than 20% of their time writing code.”
GitHub Copilot reaches over 37,000 organizations and 1.5 million developers
“We have over 37,000 organization and more than 1.5 million developers that are using Copilot.”
Snyk was the first to integrate security scanning with automated pull requests
“First of all, that, that integration in terms of connecting your code with security scanning like that was a first of a kind integration. Like no one had done that before.”
Salva: Product teams should allocate 5-10% of capacity to moonshots
“As a general rule, as a general principle, I certainly try to make sure that we're always reserving some capacity for bold, audacious experimental research projects. You can kind of think of those, like those really uncertain bets as being five to 10% of the t…”
Salva: Innovation horizons measure ambiguity and confidence, not calendar dates
“Not necessarily a concrete definition. Like for me, I usually ballpark it as first horizon is the next year, second horizon, the next three years, third horizon, next five years. But we generally think of it more as like a measure of ambiguity and confidence l…”
Code is better suited for AI models than natural languages
“In fact, They're kind of nice from an AI perspective because they're relatively constrained in terms of their semantics, right? The number of words, and I put that in scare quotes, as it were, that can be expressed in Python, for example, is much smaller than …”
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…”
Scaling Copilot required scaling product management more than engineering
“And so the amount of kind of give and take between developers and us as a product team, Has really required us to scale up more of the product team than it has the engineering team.”
Schoening: Designers Made Up 10% of Top GitHub Contributors Pre-LLMs
“In a previous life, I led design and product at GitHub and GitHub designers before LLMs contributed to GitHub. I think in the top contributors to GitHub itself, like, 10% were designers.”
Rachitsky: v0 ranked just behind Cursor and GitHub in survey
“I did the survey recently where I asked my readers, what tools do you use most in your day-to-day work as a product builder, as a product manager? And in the category of engineering tools vZero came in right below cursor and GitHub for people's most used AI bu…”
Osika: GPT Engineer has over 50,000 GitHub stars
“GPT Engineer is to date the most popular open source tool to showcase the ability for large language models to create applications. And it's at like 50 something, 50 something thousand GitHub stars and like dozens of academic references.”
Coleman: Community Notes publishes code updates to GitHub and data daily
“Whenever we update the code, there's, or update the scoring system, there's an update in GitHub when the data is published daily, so you can download it”
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…”
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…”
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…”