GitHub Copilot

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4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 28, 2023 by Raza Habib · said 25 times in 9 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Feb 28, 2023 neutral
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Habib: Senior developers benefit more from GitHub Copilot than junior developers
“One thing that is surprising to me is that the people who say to me they use it the most are some of the people I consider to be better or more senior developers. You might've thought this tool would help juniors more, but I think people who are more accustome…”
Raza Habib Feb 28, 2023 ▶ 10:30 The REAL potential of generative AI · Y Combinator
Nov 1, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Friedman: 50% of YC startups use Cursor while only 12% use GitHub Copilot
“Yeah, we surveyed the summer 24 founders, and half the batch is using Cursor, compared to only 12% that's using GitHub Copilot.”
Jared Friedman Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 29:39 The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
Jul 11, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Srinivas: Perplexity mandates that engineers use AI tools like Cursor or Copilot
“We made it mandatory to use at least one AI coding tool, and internally at perplexity it happens to be cursor and like a mix, mix of cursor and GitHub Copilot. But yeah, we definitely made it compulsory.”
Aravind Srinivas Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 20:31 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
Sep 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Truell: OpenAI's Original Codex Model Cost Around $100,000 to Train
“By our calculations, Codex, which was the first, this was the first autocomplete model behind GitHub Copilot, it didn't really cost that much money to train, even though, even back then, at kind of the beginning and middle of 2022, people were talking about ho…”
Michael Truell Sep 3, 2025 ▶ 16:36 Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
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