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

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 (twit.tv/people/leo-laporte), Jeff Jarvis (twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis), and Paris Martineau (twit.tv/people/paris-martineau)

Guest: Martin Woodward (github.com/martinwoodward)

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