Github might be in trouble
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So according to the information, Open AI
is developing an internal alternative to
Microsoft GitHub. Now, I personally have
just absolutely no idea why OpenAI would
ever want to replace GitHub. I mean, I
thought they were best friends with
Microsoft. I thought they loved
Microsoft products. I would have just
never guessed there to ever be a reason
ever to switch off of GitHub.
Not a lot of green in that status graph.
The reality is I do not think the uptime
of GitHub really has any impact on
OpenAI's decision to be making a source
control internally if the information is
to be correct. Now, I'm going to do
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All right, the prediction. I think
version control is going to change a
huge amount over the course of the next
few years and I think it's going to be a
bigger and faster change than it was
from tortois svn to git. Now a lot of
you may not know this but git hasn't
been around that long as far as the
history of computing goes. Git is 30
years younger than the oldest version
control system and it's one year younger
than mean girls which every time I think
about that it just I don't know. I don't
know how I feel. It doesn't make me feel
that good. Git is a version control
that's strongly tied to the file system
and it really encapsulates the ideas of
that day and of course it's creator
Linus Torva. So with my prediction of
everybody moving away, you can obviously
tell I'm panicking because one of my
courses on boot.dev is to learn Git. I
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right, boys? Now I know there's a lot of
you that are probably fairly skeptical
of what I'm saying right now. And I get
that. Hey, I would be pretty skeptical
if I heard people just spouting such
nonsense because I am kind of like
yapping. I'm blathering at this point
about this entire topic. Just hear me
out. Follow my reasoning. May I first
present exhibit A. This is pretty much
before any of the AI revolution. Okay,
this is two years ago back when AI was
real real bad at everything. This is
just a meme. We This We love this. Okay,
this is one of my favorite things of all
time ever posted on the internet. And
now I'd like to present you exhibit B,
OpenClaw. It has more stars than React
and Linux on GitHub. Single-handedly one
of the most popular repos of all time.
AI is just at the very beginning and the
storm of people coming in and realizing
that they can now do things to computers
that they've never been able to do
because they lacked the either the
motivation or the mental capacity to be
able to become a programmer. Now they
can just be like, "Yo, yo, OpenClot,
make all this stuff for me." And of
course, what happens when people start
building software? They quickly realize
the value of being able to keep track of
everything that they've ever made.
underneath the hood, an agent could, you
know, make a commit every single time it
makes a change and then push that up to
some sort of GitHub, but that person
would have to go and they'd have to make
a GitHub and then after making a GitHub,
they'd have to like get a nit or get
remote, you know, like there's just so
many things that they're unlikely to do,
at least in my personal opinion, because
it is just a lot of computer work. And I
think people are going to keep on
getting more and more abstracted away
from computers. And so to me it seems to
make a lot more sense that these
companies that are developing these
tools such as codeex with open AI or
really cursor with what is anyphere? Any
sphere? That's right. Any sphere with
cursor to me it's like they're the ones
that are truly positioned to just create
version control systems that are
effectively transparent to agent
changes. And so agents are just going to
be making these big set of changes and
making these little commits or these
little, you know, change logs as they
go. and the person that is developing a
lot of scare quotes on the word
developing these pieces of software will
be able to kind of walk through those
changes go okay my app broke and I was
unable to fix it so let's walk back four
places let's start again from right here
for those that kind of know version
control systems this sounds very
familiar doesn't it yes JJ jiu-jitsu
this is pretty much the premise of JJ
which seems to be an excellent alignment
with how these agents are operating also
the diffs they look really good in JJ
you know I've never used JJ, but the
more I look into JJ, I'm like, "Oh my
gosh, this is what I want." Like, this
diff is absolutely beautiful. Now,
technically with Git, you can also use
colored words, which will look like
this. But man, JJ's that that diff and
JJ was
that was looking good. And I say all
this because I don't think GitHub has
some sort of strangle hold on
developers. I don't think it really
matters to this next generation of
people coming in who are trying to
develop software. I don't think they
care that it's hosted on GitHub or
GitLab or wherever it's at. They just
want things that don't disappear. And
honestly, I genuinely thought this was
going to be the case when Cursor bought
graphite. graphite was the ability to
kind of have the material approach to
stacked diffs and all of that and be
able to move changes more easily with a
team and kind of get rid of some of the
annoying parts of working with git. So I
just naturally thought like this was
already going to happen but it hasn't
happened yet. So it looks like Open AAI
might just be developing an alternative
to GitHub internally. They probably also
have achieved AGI internally. Sam Alman
is probably wearing multiple polos at
this moment. It's a weird time kind of
to be in this whole software world
because giants in which I never thought
would change such as GitHub I now
foresee as one of the first things to
actually get radically reduced in this
AI revolution. I I just figured they
would be on top coming out on top of
this because hey, more code, more things
to store. But now that I'm kind of
looking at it, I'm thinking, no,
actually, they're going to be the first
ones gone. And any of these AI
companies, whether it is going to be
cursor or open AI that eventually
creates an entirely closed ecosystem,
it's going to create just more and more
training data. they can watch and have
full control over the prompts that were
used, the code that was generated, the
things that were released to production,
the things that were marked good. The
amount of just like data and operations
that's going to come from whatever
company is the first one to really jump
on this is going to be incredible. And
honestly, I'm just sh I shocked again. I
just can't believe Cursor hasn't already
done this. All right, that's it. That's
it. That's all I just want to yap about
it a little bit because it's just a
strange time. I I'm just feeling weird
about this whole world that we live in.
Anyhow, the name is I'm probably I'm I
mean, personally probably going to
continue to use GitHub for a long time.
Like I don't see any reason not to learn
Git right now. I think there's just
going to be an extended period of time
of weird tumultuous change that's going
to exist for a while and then there's
probably going to be two islands of
people. Honestly, the people that just
truly have no idea what they're doing
and they're going to be completely
enclosed in a wall garden like cursor
where they develop all their code in it.
They're able to have all the browser
testing in it. They have all the things
being committed transparently. They
don't even realize it's being pushed to
some sort of remote origin. They just
have no idea how anything works. They're
just like that that guy on the Truman
show that's like, "Yes, now make that
theme more purple." Like that's it.
That's all they really have inside of
their head. Then there's going to be
this other side, the people that artisal
people, the people that want to just
like maybe they use half vibing, half
just hand coding, whatever they do, but
they're the ones kind of in control of
everything and they understand how
computers work. It's just going to be a
weird world. And I am, you know, I was
born in a different time, so I'm just
naturally in the other side again.
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The speaker discusses the surprising news that OpenAI is reportedly developing an internal alternative to Microsoft GitHub. He predicts a significant and rapid change in version control systems, suggesting this shift will be even more profound than the transition from Tortoise SVN to Git. This change is driven by the rise of AI agents, which are enabling a new generation of users to build software without traditional programming knowledge or the motivation for complex version control tasks. The speaker envisions future version control systems being transparent to these agent-driven changes, with companies like OpenAI or Cursor potentially creating closed ecosystems that provide vast training data and control, ultimately diminishing GitHub's current dominance. He concludes by foreseeing two distinct groups of developers: those operating entirely within AI-driven "walled gardens" without understanding the underlying mechanics, and "artisanal" developers who maintain a deep understanding and control over their systems.
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