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Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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IM 892: Pants-based Benchmarks - GitHub's Agent Revolution

Oct 15, 2026 · 2h 32m

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GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptive, wait until you hear what's coming next. Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay (11) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come" / X AI models…