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Shopify VP Glen Coates discusses new AI features for ecommerce businesses including product descriptions, marketing suggestions, and search, as well as their approach to AI innovation-at-scale, integrating acquisitions, and building a leadership team of entrepreneurs.

Redfin's CEO Glenn Kelman joins Jason to discuss essential tips for entering the market, hacking the system, finding happiness and success within simpler goals, and more. With OpenPhone, TWiST listeners get an extra 20% off any plan for their first six months.

Jason interviews Kevin O'Connor of ScOp Venture Capital about the early days of the internet, AI's impact on markets and industries like Hollywood, tactics in declining markets ('death-icorns'), and his investment interests.

Inbal Shani is the chief product officer at GitHub, where she leads core product management, along with product strategy, marketing, open source, and communities, including the development of GitHub Copilot. Prior to joining GitHub, she led engineering and product teams at Amazon and Microsoft. In today’s conversation, we discuss:

• What Inbal believes is overhyped and underhyped in the rapidly changing field of AI

• How AI-driven code generation is changing software development

• Her take on whether AI will replace developers

• How software development looks in 3 to 5 years

• How product teams operate at GitHub

• GitHub’s Next team, and other ways the company fosters a culture of innovation

• The success metrics and philosophy behind GitHub’s Copilot

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Find the transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/the-future-of-ai-in-software-development-inbal-shani-cpo-of-github/#transcript

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/inbalshani/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Inbal’s background

(04:17) Why generative AI is not going to replace developers in the near future 

(05:54) Why AI-driven testing is underhyped

(07:48) What the next 3 to 5 years will look like

(10:13) Stats around the use of GitHub Copilot 

(12:07) How Copilot enables engineers to work more efficiently

(13:38) Common mistakes when adopting AI into your workflows

(16:42) How GitHub operationalizes “dogfooding”

(18:46) The philosophy behind Copilot

(20:24) Copilot’s success metrics

(24:54) How Copilot encourages collaboration

(26:37) What we lose when AI writes code for us

(29:35) A retrospective on the generative AI space

(30:47) Inbal’s thoughts on the future of AI

(32:35) How to make space for innovative product ideas

(34:37) How GitHub stays on the cutting edge of innovation

(36:44) The GitHub Next team

(39:20) Advice for early product managers

(42:17) Inbal’s “biggest learning” from her career

(45:34) Inbal’s closing thoughts

(46:19) Lightning round

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Referenced:

• How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, GitHub, Google): https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-measure-and-improve-developer-productivity-nicole-forsgren-microsoft-research-github-goo/

• DORA: https://dora.dev/

• The role of AI in product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub, Copilot): https://www.lennyspodcast.com/the-role-of-ai-in-new-product-development-ryan-j-salva-vp-of-product-at-github-copilot/

• GitHub Universe 2023 day 2 keynote: The productivity platform for all developers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_o9kFPVeiw

• Satya Nadella on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella/

• TomTom: https://www.tomtom.com/

• Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success: https://www.amazon.com/Failing-Forward-Turning-Mistakes-Stepping/dp/0785288570/

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996

• Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great: https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Flywheel-Monograph-Accompany-Great/dp/0062933795

• Dare to Lead Like a Girl: How to Survive and Thrive in the Corporate Jungle: https://www.amazon.com/Dare-Lead-Like-Girl-Corporate/dp/1538163527

• All the Light We Cannot See on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81083008

• The Wheel of Time on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Season-1/dp/B09F59CZ7R

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Tom Conrad's conversation touches on his past experiences at Apple, Pandora, and Snap, including leadership positions in notable tech failures like Pets.com and Quibi. He shares insights from these roles and now holds a position as CEO of Zero.

This weekend, Gazans suffered third internet and phone blackout since Israel declared war on Hamas; journalists like Mirna El Helbawi are collecting donations of eSIMs to keep Gaza online.

Jason and Sunny discuss OpenAI's DevDay announcements, including GPT-4 Turbo, expanded context windows, Custom GPTs, and more. Sunny demos an AI-driven chatbot creator, an AI email-first Chief of Staff, Brave Nightly's webpage summarizer, Zapier's AI-powered Zaps, among others.

Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and President of Walt Disney Animation Studios, discusses leadership principles that built Pixar's unique culture, workplace practices for creative teams, embracing failure as a path to growth, and personal industry insights. Key figures include George Lucas and Steve Jobs.

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Marc Andreessen publishes 'The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,' which NLW discusses in context to the ongoing AI discourse.

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Jasmine Crowe-Houston's company Goodr delivers surplus food from restaurants and businesses to local nonprofits for those in need, addressing both food waste and climate change through its growth.

Scott and Kara discuss Charter vs Disney and the FTC's possible Amazon lawsuit. Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, shares his perspective on Elon Musk's recent tweetstorm.

The podcast reveals how Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, initially the founders of Tesla, laid its groundwork before Elon Musk played a significant role.

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