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IM 892: Pants-based Benchmarks - GitHub's Agent Revolution

October 15, 2026 · 2 h 32 min

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GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptive, wait until you hear what's coming next.

  • Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
  • (11) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come" / X
  • AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
  • Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports
  • Muse Wonder
  • OpenAI's math breakthrough points beyond math
  • GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence
  • Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes on Kyiv data centers
  • Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy
  • Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI
  • Nicolas Cage Says He's 'Probably Not' Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for 'Spider-Noir'
  • Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting
  • REA — Reverse Engineering for Your Coding Agent
  • Cupertino
  • Zuck's beer face

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Martin Woodward

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