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GitHub

Where code and its review history live

The place most software projects keep their code, their history and their review process. A pull request is the moment a change gets read before it merges, and that is now where people hang automated reviewers. Free for public work and for small private projects.

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  • Naval RavikantDoes it

    Angel investor · AngelList and the Naval podcast

    GitHub is the hinge in his coding setup. Code written with Claude gets pushed there as a pull request, and he has wired it so Codex and Gemini fire automatically on every one. He calls that a roundtable of AIs and says it has been less useful than you might think.

    Source: nav.al: A Return to Code

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