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GitHub’s COO Explains Why AI Hasn’t Replaced Developers

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GitHub’s COO Explains Why AI Hasn’t Replaced Developers

AI & I

19 HOURS AGO
AI & I

AI & I

19 HOURS AGO
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Last year, there were 1 billion commits on GitHub. This year, Kyle Daigle expects that number to exceed 14 billion, a two-component explosion caused by more humans—and their agents—issuing pull requests. In March alone, 17 million pull requests on GitHub w...

Highlights

In this episode, GitHub COO Kyle Daigle discusses the transformative impact of AI agents on software development, projecting a massive surge in code commits and pull requests. He explores how the platform is adapting to an agent-native world, where non-developers are increasingly building applications, and addresses the challenges and opportunities this shift presents for open-source maintainers and the broader developer ecosystem.
02:50
Non-developers like legal and finance teams use Copilot to build apps
03:30
GitHub builds agentic tools to manage the flood of automated pull requests
04:35
More PRs submitted per month than all of last year
06:19
17 million agent-created pull requests in March alone
08:03
GitHub's business model may shift from per-seat licensing to usage-based pricing
12:43
Stay focused on core values.
13:08
Developer choice is core and non-negotiable.
17:35
Agents must intuit user needs without explicit codification
19:50
Hill climbing over moonshots.
24:48
Humans accept critical feedback more readily from AI than from other people.

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Introduction
00:00
The agentic PR flood
03:27
GitHub's approach to helping open-source maintainers manage the surge
04:33
What 14 billion commits means for code quality
06:15
Moving from per-seat licensing to usage-based pricing
08:03
Kyle's dual role as GitHub COO and Microsoft's chief marketing officer for developers
09:45
Developer choice as competitive moat
13:03
How to balance dogfooding your own tools with staying honest about the competition
14:57
Hill climbing, frontier tuning, and solving the model-routing problem
19:45
Kyle's agentic communication hack
24:45

Transcript

Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Mike Taylor. I'm the head of tech consulting at Every. And I sat down with Kyle Daigle, the COO of GitHub, and talked to him about what is happening on the front lines of coding agents. We have 17 million pull requests coming in Every mo...