Rethinking Git for the Age of Coding Agents with GitHub Cofounder Scott Chacon

About this episode

Matt Bornstein interviews Scott Chacon about the evolution of Git and the future of version control with AI.

Matt Bornstein speaks with Scott Chacon, cofounder of GitHub and CEO of GitButler, about why Git's user interface has barely changed since 2005, how GitButler is rethinking version control for both humans and AI agents, and what the "next GitHub" might actually look like. They cover parallel branches, agent-optimized CLI design, the future of code review, and why the best engineers of the future will be the best writers.

People in this episode

Host: Matt Bornstein

Guest: Scott Chacon

Topics covered

• version control
• AI agents
• Git user interface
• code review
• software development

Keywords

• Git
• GitHub
• version control
• AI
• software development
• code review
• CLI design

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GitHub, GitButler

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