Best Github Copilot Podcasts (2025)

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952: VS Code, GitHub & Copilot - UNIVERSE 25 Announcements + Reactions 35:54

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Live from GitHub Universe, Wes, Scott, and CJ talk about the latest AI and developer tools from GitHub, including Agent HQ, Copilot integrations, and the new mission control for agents. They also share stories from the Syntax meetup, hack their conference badges, and debate AI’s role in coding. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 03:39 This year’s …

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Instant PR Feedback Without leaving GitHub | Merrill Lutsky on Graphite 47:00

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As AI outpaces human review, latency compounds. On AI Native Dev, Graphite co-founder and CEO, Merrill Lutsky joins Guy Podjarny to explore how stack aware reviews remove friction and accelerate AI-native development. They also get into: • how Graphite’s architecture ensures traceability across AI generated commits • what engineering velocity means…

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Risky Business #813 -- FFmpeg has a point 1:05:08

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In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: We love some good vulnerability reporting drama, this time FFmpeg’s got beef with Google OpenAI announces its Aardvark bug-gobbling system Two US ransomware responders get arrested for… ransomware Memento (nee HackingTeam) CEO says: Sì, those are tot…

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Claude, TypingMind, AMP & MCP Servers: The Future Dev 53:24

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How do you give an agent the same visibility a human developer has, without giving it full control? Alan Pope, Senior Developer Advocate at Tessl, explains how Model Context Protocols (MCPs) give AI agents structured access to dev environments, enabling tools like Claude Code and TypingMind to read, build, and execute safely under human oversight. …

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951: A first look at Remix 3 47:41

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Scott and Wes dive into Remix 3, exploring how it embraces native web standards like Events, Signals, and Streams to become a truly full-stack framework. They unpack what “LLM-ready,” thin APIs, and a standards-based approach mean for the future of web development. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 03:21 Uses the platform - native Events, Signals…

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Behind the Scenes of VS Code’s Planning Agent with Bhavya U 22:41

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The new planning agent is here to help you plan out your next tasks, but how does it differ from todos? When would you want to use the planning agent, and how does it actually work? Bhavya, software engineer on the VS Code team, sits down to break it all down. Follow VS Code: X: https://x.com/code Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vscode.dev YouTub…

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950: Even SCARIER Web Dev Nightmares (Spooky Stories Pt. 2) 57:57

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In part 2 of this year’s Spooky Stories special, Wes and Scott discuss the most chilling developer horror stories—from six-month-old unprocessed donations and runaway dog-food orders to vanishing databases, DNS disasters, code that literally tore apart a mall’s ventilation system, and more! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:33 A Bug Beyond the…

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Risky Business #812 -- Alleged Trenchant exploit mole is ex-ASD 1:06:14

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In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: L3Harris Trenchant boss accused of selling exploits to Russia once worked at the Australian Signals Directorate Microsoft WSUS bug being exploited in the wild Dan Kaminsky DNS cache poisoning comes back because of a bad PRNG SpaceX finally starts dis…

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From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups 39:24

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Jake Heller is the co-founder & CEO of Casetext, the AI legal startup behind CoCounsel, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters for $650 million.In his talk at AI Startup School on June 17th, 2025, he shared how his team did it—from picking the right idea to building AI products that actually work—and how founders can turn a cool demo into a reliable…

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AI Agents Beyond Context Limits | Maksim Shaposhnikov 58:26

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Bots follow scripts. Assistants wait for your commands. Agents act autonomously. Maksim Shaposhnikov, AI Research Engineer at Tessl, joins Simon Maple to unpack the capabilities of AI coding agents, including how developers can test and trust the code they generate. On the docket: • how sub-agents operate independently, maintaining their own contex…

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949: Web Dev HORROR Stories + Spooky Trivia! (Spooky Stories Pt. 1) 40:51

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It’s that time of year again, Scott (as Dracula) and Wes (as a big bad shark) return for their annual Spooky Stories special! They’re joined by a mysterious guest for a round of creepy coding trivia and chilling true tales of web dev gone wrong; dropped databases, haunted passwords, and more. Beware: these are real developer horror stories. Show No…

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Building & Scaling Open Source Communities with Steve Francia 25:42

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Steve Francia joins the pod to talk about building, scaling, and supporting large open source projects and communities from MongoDB, Go, Cobra, Hugo, and so much more. Follow VS Code: X: https://x.com/code Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vscode.dev YouTube: https://youtube.com/code LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/104107263 GitHub: htt…

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Transformers: The Discovery That Sparked the AI Revolution 9:18

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Nearly every modern AI model, from ChatGPT and Claude to Gemini and Grok, is built on the same foundation: the Transformer.In this video, YC's Ankit Gupta traces how AI learned to understand language — from early RNNs and LSTMs to attention mechanisms and the breakthrough 2017 paper Attention Is All You Need — the discovery that unlocked the modern…

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948: Zed is Ready For Primetime 53:08

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Wes and Scott talk about what makes Zed—the hot new editor built in Rust—fast, beautiful, and finally ready for primetime. From Git UI to extensions and AI tools, they break down what Zed gets right, what it still lacks, and whether it’s time to finally ditch VS Code. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! Syntax San Francisco Meetup We need your Spoo…

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Risky Business #811 -- F5 is the tip of the crap software iceberg 51:51

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In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: China has been rummaging in F5’s networks for a couple of years Meanwhile China tries to deflect by accusing the NSA of hacking its national timing system Salesforce hackers use their stolen data trove to dox NSA, ICE employees Crypto stealing, proxy…

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YC Partners Answer Your Questions | Office Hours 38:32

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Every founder faces moments where they’re not sure what to do next — such as how to go to market with AI products, when to pivot, and who/when to hire. In this episode of Office Hours, YC partners Pete Koomen, Brad Flora, Nicolas Dessaigne, and Gustaf Alströmer answer real questions from founders and share stories about how great teams build convic…

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Wide World of Cyber: A deep dive on the F5 hack 39:11

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In this edition of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray talks to Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about the F5 incident. They talk about what happened, whether it’s a big deal, and why private equity ownership of mid-tier cybersecurity companies is often a red flag. Show notes

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947: S-Tier MCP Servers for Developers 32:55

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Scott and Wes break down the top-tier MCP servers developers are using right now. From browser automation to debugging superpowers, they explore how these servers are changing what’s possible in modern dev workflows. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:52 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 02:46 Submit your Spooky Stories! 03:37 Syntax San Francisco M…

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Mastering Chat Modes in VS Code with Burke Holland 26:55

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Burke joins the pod to talk about chat modes, how they are evolving, how you can use them as agents, and how he created Beast mode for GPT 4.1 that revolutionized working with this model. Follow VS Code: X: https://x.com/code Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vscode.dev YouTube: https://youtube.com/code LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/1…

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Is ChatGPT Making Us Dumber? 50:19

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MIT researchers found our brains quiet down when we offload to AI. My guest Paul Truax (Cognify Learning Company) argues the fix isn’t less AI—it’s using it right to deepen learning and strategy. We break down the study, “director vs. automation,” and how to turn answers into understanding.By Stephen Walther

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Risky Biz Soap Box: Why Mastercard is scaling its cybersecurity business 30:49

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In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast, host Patrick Gray chats with Mastercard’s Executive Vice President and Head of Security Solutions, Johan Gerber, about how the card brand thinks about cybersecurity and why it’s aggressively investing in the space. After listening to this interview you’ll understand why the credit ca…

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946: We Got Roasted for Our Websites — Fair 57:35

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In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about why devs neglect their own websites, hosting shady projects (hypothetically), AI rules in version control, balancing side projects and family life, and more! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:43 Why devs neglect their own websites (and how to convince your parents cod…

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Risky Business #810 -- Data extortion attacks have a silver lining 1:03:12

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In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: FBI intervenes in Scattered Spider Salesforce leaksite Clop loots Oracle E-Biz deployments Plus so much more data extortion.. At least it’s not ransomware … we guess? The US still can’t decide who’s gonna be in charge of NSA & Cybercom Cambodian scam…

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What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs 8:00

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For years, we've heard two major narratives about AI. One predicting the end of human work, the other dismissing it as hype. The truth is more nuanced, and more hopeful.From radiology to software engineering, the pattern repeats: as technology makes tasks cheaper and faster, demand for human creativity and judgment grows.YC's Garry Tan explores wha…

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AI-First Project Management for Developers | Alex Gavrilescu on Backlog.md 46:08

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Even the smartest AI agent starts as a blank slate. Alexandru Gavrilescu, creator of Backlog.md, and Simon Maple explore how to give AI the right context and specifications so it can deliver like a human teammate, and sometimes faster. On the docket: • why humans still matter for review, but AI can accelerate work beyond traditional sprints • the r…

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How To Design Products That Truly Stand Out 35:49

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Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear, the issue tracking tool used by thousands of high-growth companies. Before Linear, he was the first designer at Coinbase and later a lead designer at Airbnb.On Design Review with YC's Aaron Epstein, Karri shares how his design background shaped Linear’s product philosophy, why quality and craft ma…

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945: Chrome Dev Tools MCP Server 29:14

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Scott and Wes dive into Chrome’s new MCP server; a dev tools API powered by Puppeteer that gives your scripts, editors, and AI agents full access to Chrome. They break down how it works, what it can (and can’t) do, and how it might change debugging and automation for developers Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:15 Syntax San Francisco Meetup. …

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Building agent memory for VS Code with Harald Kirschner 25:41

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Harald joins James to talk through customizing chat, agents, and GitHub Copilot with custom instructions, prompts, and modes. We go deeper int new proposed APIs that pulls them together to create agents and how Harald implement agent memory and shipped it as an extension! Follow VS Code: X: https://x.com/code Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vscod…

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The World's First Commercial Mobile Carbon Capture Device 12:46

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Paul Gross and his team at Remora are trying to do something that’s never been done before. They're building mobile carbon capture devices for commercial trucks and trains—capturing CO2 from moving vehicles before it enters the atmosphere, then turning those emissions into revenue by selling it to customers that can turn the liquified CO2 into new …

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944: Is Coinbase Really Writing Half Their Code With AI? 49:06

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Wes and Scott talk with Kyle Cesmat about how Coinbase is writing nearly half its code with AI—while keeping quality and security front and center. They dig into tools like Cursor and Claude Code, agent-driven workflows, code review challenges, and how AI is reshaping developer productivity without replacing developers. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to …

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Snake Oilers: Realm Security, Horizon3 and Persona 45:40

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Wes and Scott dive into some hot takes and classic debates—tabs vs spaces, camel vs snake case, export styles, barrel files, variable naming, and more. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:26 CSS variables: descriptive vs. semantic 03:38 snake_case vs. camelCase 04:54 Default exports vs. named exports 06:23 Barrel files vs. direct imports 09:15 F…