Today you're VP of product at GitHub. Before that, you were a super senior product leader at Microsoft. What made you decide to kind of take this leap and then just, is there anything interesting about the machination that went into just making that transition? It was very clear to me that there was no place that I could have a larger impact than working at GitHub.
Ryan J. Salva is the VP of Product at GitHub, where he led the incubation and launch of Copilot. Copilot uses OpenAI’s ML engine to suggest code and entire functions in real time, right from your editor, and is changing the way we build software. Ryan is an experienced developer and product manager, with over a decade of experience working for Microsoft before moving to lead the GitHub product team. In today’s episode, he shares how Copilot got its start, how it moved from prototype to live product, and how he structures R&D teams within larger companies. He also discusses the ethical questions surrounding AI use and how to build a successful product team, and shares the inside story of the development of Copilot.