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This post misses the point about what has changed. It's not that coding is or was easy, it's that coding is _more than typing code_. Typing is easy. Coding is hard. LLMs eliminate …

We haven't posted a project page yet on the githubnext site! Maggie's talk ( https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment ) is the best reference right now.

was not expecting a HN crossover with /r/formula1 today, but here we are

I do work at GitHub. I shared the above as a nuanced "yes and" to the pain that Mitchell is feeling. In the same way that Mastodon didn't replace Twitter even when Twitter went to …

Correct, sorry I thought this was pretty obvious but in retrospect maybe not. I'm not encouraging Mitchell to stay, I'm saying that my version of his post is about _me_ staying to …

Shrug Nothing prevents usage of GH in a decentralized fashion. There's nothing magical about git remotes. Just add some more, figure out a process that works for you, have fun! In …

shrug, I can't fix a lot of things in our reality, but I'd love to leave software development in a better state than when I found it

derp, haven't touched that in a while. TY!

Salesforce never understood Heroku. Salesforce's understanding of Heroku, if such an understanding ever existed, was wildly different than what Heroku understood it wanted to be. B…

Caveat, I'm not a lawyer, I don't speak for the company, yadda yadda It's a product that is _de facto_ present in nearly all developer scenarios. There are scenarios where I person…

hah, my cheat here is https://github.com/YOURHANDLE.png Will redirect to an image file whose title is your user ID! :D

Hi there! Longtime fan and hubber here. It's okay to have emotions. I have similar emotions. I'm GitHub User 22723 which is effectively the same as you (considering there's ~180m G…

https://github.github.io/gh-aw/#gallery down the page has a list of concrete applications For examplpe, https://github.github.io/gh-aw/blog/2026-01-13-meet-the-work... has several …

Hello HN! The Agentic Workflows project has been on the githubnext.com website for a while, and we recently moved the documentation and repo over to the `github` org. This is early…

Nope, it uses Copilot CLI under the hood (with your token)

Any github pages site is, by default, ORGNAME.github.io. We recently moved this out of the githubnext org to the github org, but short of dedicating some route in github.com/whatev…

Also espressif RISC V mcu's like the ESP32-C3 and -C6 are fantastic. Some Nordic MCUs are easy too, specifically nrf52840. Have fun!

This has all the energy of people saying "ah, you take such great photos, you must have a good camera" _People_ are getting outsized value from AI in the ways they apply it. Photog…

That hasn't been our experience using it in-house! It's not perfect, but not every software engineering task is some galaxy-brain architectural shit. Sometimes, you have to lay dow…

GitHub Stars have had access to this since last week, and a few of them have made in-use videos: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FARf9emEPjI by Dev Leonardo - https://www.youtube…

You have succeeded at hiring an electrician in THIS world? What's their number? Do they actually show up when they say they will?!?!?!!1!one

I'm sure we'll share some of the strategies we used here in upcoming talks. It's, uh, "nontrivial". And it's not just "what text do you stick in the prompt".

When video terminals first came out, everyone started out using line editors even though line editors make no sense when you can display arbitrary buffer. It took a while until edi…

Bingo.

Well, that's basically the heart of Copilot Workspace! The whole UX is structured to make it easy for the human to steer. - Alter the "current" bullet points in the spec to correct…