Microsoft and OpenAI had this idea. They were cloning all of our repositories to harvest kind of the data out of GitHub. It's totally legit practice, but like, you know, it does have a real consequence. And we were able to step in and mitigate it very quickly. There was not a reliability, kind of an uptime incident there.
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.