Aaron Winston

@ashleywolf @alexkrasne @acolombiadev of course! I am personally learning just how unique GitHub’s emoji game is in slack 🙃

@aaronwinston_tx @alexkrasne @acolombiadev Also, hi Aaron! Miss us?

Reflections due today, how clean my office is you ask? we'll spotless. I will do anything and everything before this, my aversion to this process is wild.

@alexkrasne @acolombiadev /fleet + /reflect that shit immediately

@aaronwinston_tx @acolombiadev Me right now in the Copilot CLI: /reflect

@alexkrasne @acolombiadev Woulda written you a shorter letter if I had more time / less wine!

@acolombiadev It all makes so much sense now 😂 @aaronwinston_tx

@acolombiadev @alexkrasne hi friend 👋 i never could find the time honestly - those things take a second!

@aaronwinston_tx @alexkrasne Oh helllow fren! That is what I'm doing wrong, this is not a daytime activity lol

“If you’re not the model, you’re the harness” sounds clever. It’s also wrong. 👀 A harness isn’t everything around an LLM. It’s a specific architecture that’s showing up in systems that actually work. Our cofounder @aparnadhinak wrote the clearest breakdown we've seen yet.

@martinwoodward @GeorgeJeffersn And the superior one is pg tips, right?

@GeorgeJeffersn It’s not a conversation. One is clearly far superior to the other.

I did not realise PG tips vs Yorkshire tea was such a highly contested conversation

@kdaigle This is really, really interesting. Definitely keen to see a breakdown by language moving forward - it'd be fascinating to see which models do better in which rough domains in terms of code survival. Thanks for the share!

The team’s been cooking up additional insights here. More to come if this is interesting to folks. 👀

Hot take from looking at @github Copilot telemetry: benchmarks make coding models look wildly different. Production workflows make them look much more similar. 👀 We looked at 23M+ Copilot requests and examined one simple metric: code survivability.

throwback to a few months ago when we launched this quick n dirty music video: youtube.com/watch?v=KG-Alt… as a sidenote - our EP ghosts is now four months old as of today! give it a spin on bandcamp/spotify/apple music. (if you listen 20 times, we get 1/10 of a penny.)

@kentcdodds of course! really mean it too - if you have any wish list items, feel free to DM me! this report takes a village every year and is responsible for approximately 70% of my grey hairs.

@aaronwinston_tx Thanks!

You will never convince me that it is right to not combine TypeScript and JavaScript in this measurement

@samuelrizzondev @Star_Knight12 🚀

@aaronwinston_tx @Star_Knight12 Sure thing! Check your DM

Someone vibe coded a 3D city where every GitHub developer is a building. It is called Git city where more commits means taller building and more repos means wider base. Light windows shows that you were active recently. You can even fly through the entire city and find your building just by searching your username. And honestly, this is what vibe coding actually looks like at its best.

@samuelrizzondev @Star_Knight12 @samuelrizzondev hi! hello. i work at github - would you want to plz send me a DM by any chance? would love to talk to you about this project, it's incredible.

@Star_Knight12 Hey, founder here! Thanks for sharing this project. I’m building this in public, and it’s also an open source project. Let’s go 🚀🫡

@robpalmer2 Coming to this a bit late @robpalmer2, but I've led Octoverse the last few years (with an exceptional group of folks). If you have ideas for what you'd like to see in terms of how we segment data, plz feel free to DM me.

This year's GitHub Octoverse annual survey did a good job of correctly representing TypeScript & JavaScript as a single ecosystem. When this combined data is omitted, it results in misleading takes.

This was a fun one this past week. I’ve been doing a bit with CLI for the silliest things (some fast piano scales and sight reading apps, watch out Bach). Check out what the team’s been cooking up: github.com/features/copil…

Many of you have asked when you will be able to use Copilot CLI at work and the answer is "right now". It's a great day!

@martinwoodward I need these.

We did an in-person planning thing at work the other week. Have to say, I was unreasonably pleased with my custom GitHub projects themed post-its. Especially as I was able to take a picture, get Copilot to OCR them and use the MCP to upload them to GitHub.

Hey, so a number of you have been hit with some rate-limits on @GitHub even when you aren't doing anything that should trigger that and that sucks. The good news is the traffic team has figured out why this happened and detailed the challenges (and the fixes) on the blog 🧵

We dropped a new EP last week called Ghosts. Tracked it all live in an Austin studio with minimal overdubs, which was a first and honestly really rad. If you like indie, you'll prolly like this♥️russeltainejr.bandcamp.com/album/ghosts