I spoke at the first WeAreDevelopers World Congress in North America this past week!

My team at GitHub had a bunch of talks across topics from AI to open source (naturally), and it was really fun seeing so many folks in person that I hadn’t seen in ages.

Here’s the video of my talk:

Keen eyes and followers might note that I gave a very similar talk a few months ago at Codemotion Madrid!

What’s wild about the changes in the talk from April to now is just… how much AI has exploded even more, exponentially. I updated the stats in this version (slides here!), and talked a bit more about how GitHub is updating its infrastructure to handle traffic and compute, and had some updated stories. The main thesis of the talk is the same (about how we need to steward the future and build+work responsibly), but man, the stats kind of blow my mind (for example, the amount of agent-generated PRs on GitHub has 4x-ed just since the Spring).

It was really fun speaking at this event. I actually first spoke with the WeAreDevelopers folks back in 2024 at The Merge in Berlin, which felt very full circle because I met so many of my now-colleagues at GitHub at that event. Time flies!