GitHub, every mention
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every year 2025 anyone Michael Truell 12Diana Hu 10Craig Cannon 7Boris Cherny 6Andrej Karpathy 6Madhav Jha 5Garry Tan 4Calvin French-Owen 4Tom Blomfield 3Nicolas Dessaigne 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where GitHub comes up
Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:19 Aaron Epstein Yeah, join our Discord, check out GitHub, Back by YC, Product of the Day, Start Free, Documentation, Sign Up button up here.
The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:29 David Paffenholz Some things we've seen people do that have worked for them is in some cases just looking through GitHub and basically clicking through contributors to open source projects.
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:58 Jake Heller There should be a new GitHub pull request like every other day or every day on your prompts.
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:13 Amjad Masad Uh, it is basically a collection of, um, issues on, on GitHub from major repositories, and the unit tests and pull requests sort of end state of those issues, and
- ▶ 9:51 Amjad Masad Uh, AI code completion, co-pilot, that would be level two.
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:03 Michael Truell Uh, you know, GitHub Copilot was really the canonical example for us.
- ▶ 10:43 Michael Truell Yeah, I think that, um, so we had been inspired by, um, tools like Copilot really early on, um, and we had avoided working on, um, AI and coding because we thought it was too competitive. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:04 Diana Hu And you guys were like, oh, we could still do a better job than GitHub Copilot? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:14 Diana Hu And you were excited about programming, even though you had this big Goliath in the room with GitHub Copilot, you decided to go and let's just solve this problem. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:36 Michael Truell One of the papers that we would tout around is actually the original Codex paper, because 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…
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:45 Dylan Field Uh, if you have any doubt about the statement, just look up his GitHub.
Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:57 Aaron Epstein A lot of GitHub stars. 2 times in the scene
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:55 Aravind Srinivas So when we saw that for the relational database searches like Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub, we knew that we had like, there was something magical about combining large language models in search.
- ▶ 20:31 Aravind Srinivas 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.
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI · Y Combinator
François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:57 François Chollet Uh, and whenever in the, in the course of solving a new problem, you're synthesizing a new building block, you're going to be uploading it back to the library, much like as a software engineer, if you develop a useful library for your own…
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:51 Satya Nadella So when I look at the, my favorite feature of GitHub now is to really look at the complete change logs of all the agents that are working on my repo.
- ▶ 26:20 Garry Tan I mean, you could argue GitHub Copilot is one of the biggest pieces.
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:15 Andrej Karpathy So if we kind of think of this as like the map of software, this is a really cool tool called map of GitHub. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:39 Andrej Karpathy So, for example, when I go to a GitHub repo, like my nano GPT repo, I can't feed this to an LLM and ask questions about it. 3 times in the scene
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:22 Michael Truell One of them was using the first useful AI products where AI was really at the center, and GitHub Copilot was honestly the moment where that viscerally we really felt like, uh, now it was possible to make just
- ▶ 20:31 Michael Truell Um, we, I mean, being programmers ourselves and being inspired by products like Copilot and, uh, also papers like the early codex papers. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:12 Michael Truell So we knew, we knew a little bit about this, the internal inside baseball of building GitHub Copilot, the first version, the, the whole building GitHub Copilot story from what I understand, and you know, don't have firsthand knowledge, so… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:33 Michael Truell It came from the CEO of GitHub at the time.
How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:48 Tom Blomfield and then you publish it by GitHub.
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:18 Tom Blomfield Get a small reference implementation working without the, the complication of your existing project, or even download a reference implementation if someone's written one and posted it on GitHub.
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:46 Aravind Srinivas GitHub.
How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:07 Parker Conrad You actually also want to be able to ship someone their computer or get them set up with access to email and Salesforce and GitHub and, and like a bunch of other stuff around your company.