Ryan J Salva

The role of AI in product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub, Copilot)

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Opening
Ryan J. Salva (00:00:00): We had actually created a snapshot of GitHub's public code for what we call the Arctic Code Vault, right? Essentially, this is up in like way in the Northlands of Finland, there's a seed vault. We were like, you know what? Seed vaults are really there to preserve the diversity of the world's flora in seeds in case of some crazy either natural or manmade disaster. But another really important asset to the world is our code, our open source....

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Low-ego framing
"startups", "go-to-market"] word_count: 9940 --- Ryan J. Salva (00:00:00): We had actually created a snapshot of GitHub's public code for what we call the Arctic Code Vault, right? Essentially,...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny (00:01:55): Ryan J. Salva (00:04:42): Thank you, my friend. I am genuinely very excited to be here. Lovely to geek out with you for a little while. Lenny...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Low-ego framing
medium. Software development and the worlds that it creates wasn't possible, I don't know, maybe 50, 60 years ago now. If I'd been born in the 1700s, I probably would've been the guy making, I don't know,...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Awesome. Thanks for being here, Ryan. Ryan J. Salva (01:04:31): Yeah, dude, thank you so much. It's been a lot, a lot of fun. Lenny (01:04:35): Thank you so much for listening. If you found this...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Ending
Salva (01:03:33): Easy one. How can folks find me? I am Ryan J. Salva everywhere, Twitter, GitHub. Pick your choice. LinkedIn, Ryan J. Salva. And then how can folks be useful to me? Please, there is a 60 day free trial of Copilot that is there for everyone to pick up and use. Go try it out. When you do, post either on Twitter or Hacker News or on discussions, GitHub Discussions, your experience. Ryan J. Salva (01:04:07): Give us the good feedback. Give us the bad feedback....

The ending reorients from guest intimacy to listener usefulness.