S12 E12: Robert Brennan, OpenHands

About this episode

Robert Brennan discusses his journey and the creation of OpenHands, emphasizing the importance of community-driven development.

Robert Brennan grew up in Boston and loved it so much that he ended up calling it home again. He spent time in New York between his bookend times, but he enjoys the chill pace and great music of Boston over the fast pace of the big apple. Outside of technology, he likes to read nonfiction and fiction, specifically science fiction. He loves music, and. Has been playing guitar for 25 years now. He frequents the live music scene around Boston, and even lives near a jazz club. Robert observed the release of the first version of Devin a few years ago, which was very exciting to see agent driven development. But he and his co-founders were concerned with who was going to govern how this software was going to get written - and they hypothesized that it should be open source and community driven. This is the creation story of OpenHands. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

People in this episode

Host: Noah Labhart

Guest: Robert Brennan

Topics covered

• startup
• open source
• community driven development
• technology
• music
• Boston

Keywords

• Robert Brennan
• OpenHands
• Devin
• Boston
• technology
• open source
• community

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenHands

Products: Devin

Places: Boston, New York

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