In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Matt Rothenberg and Idan Gazit from GitHub about GitHub Next, Copilot, AI based projects at Github, and what the future is for developers with AI.

Show Notes

• 00:38 Welcome
• 01:23 Who are Matt and Idan?
• Matt Rothenberg
• @mattrothenberg
• Matt Rothenberg on CodePen
• Matt Rothenberg on GitHub)
• Idan Gazit
• @idangazit
• Idan Gazit vis.social
• Idan Gazit on GitHub
• 02:22 What’s the history of GitHub Next?
• GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
• ChatGPT | OpenAI
• 05:18 How do you come up with new ideas?
• 06:37 Did GitHub Copilot blow up fast?
• 13:18 Do we need powerful models for all situations?
• 16:40 How does Copilot know my codebase?
• Inside GitHub: Working with the LLMs behind GitHub Copilot | The GitHub Blog
• 21:34 What’s Copilot X?
• Introducing GitHub Copilot X
• 24:57 What is it like to have a hit like Copilot?
• 31:27 What is the future for developers due to AI?
• 35:11 What other AI based projects are you working on?
• 42:10 Are there any flops from GitHub Next?
• 46:59 How do you think about Code Brushes?
• GitHub Next | Code Brushes
• 48:46 Supper Club questions
• Breeze | Afternoon Labs
• rs.github.io/book/">Introduction - The Rust on ESP Book
• Recursive Sans & Mono
• Bearded Theme - Visual Studio Marketplace
• Zed - Code at the speed of thought
• Warp: The terminal for the 21st century
• 59:16 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

Shameless Plugs

• GitHub Next
• githubnext/githubnext: A public point of contact for GitHub Next
• Ariakit - Toolkit for building accessible UIs
• Liveblocks | Collaborative experiences in days, not months

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