GitHub at Work Podcast

S0106 A Month for Reflection and Improvements

Dave Burnison, Jeramiah Dooley — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:46:18 +0000

In this episode, Dave and Jeramiah go through the aftermath of all the Universe announcements, looking at the significant number of improvements and updates that have been made across the platform:

GitHub Coding agent: many, many updates, including the ability to search the web, better naming for PRs, and some love for the CLI users
Enterprise Controls: Improvements to organization custom properties, AI controls management delegation, Enterprise access restrictions, budgeting and reporting tools, and more!
VS Code & IDEs: Claude Haiku 4.5 went GA in all supported IDEs. All at once. Because the launch and product teams are getting really good at this.
Security: lots of CodeQL additions for folks using Rust

Hosted by Jeramiah Dooley with technical guest Dave Burnison

Links for even more post-show enjoyment::

Bonus:

Dave’s favorite Christmas present ever
Jeramiah’s favorite Christmas present ever

S0105 GitHub Universe Recap: Agents, Governance, Metrics

Kevin Lewis, Jeramiah Dooley — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:27:44 +0000

The GitHub Universe Recap focuses on agents, governance, and metrics:

GitHub Agents: Announced Agent HQ as a unified control center and the ability to create Custom Agents for specific development needs.
Copilot Workflows: Extended Copilot's reach with Agentic Code Review (combining AI with CodeQL) and new integrations with tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams.
VS Code & IDEs: Introduced Plan Mode for step-by-step implementation and simplified MCP integration for custom context.
Enterprise Governance: Released tools for managing AI at scale, including a Copilot metrics dashboard/API and controls to Govern Agent Workflows.

Hosted by Jeramiah Dooley with technical guest Kevin Lewis
For more information on releases:

https://github.com/events/universe/recap
For more on Octoverse report:

https://octoverse.github.com/

S0104 GitHub Copilot, Security, and Enterprise at Scale

GitHub — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This episode, hosted by Jeramiah Dooley and featuring technical guest Dave Burnison, covers 80 GitHub code releases from September 2025, with a focus on Copilot updates, secret protection, code security, and supply chain security. The deep dive explores security campaigns, Copilot Autofix, and enterprise updates for managing GitHub at scale.

S0103 Models, MCP, and More

April Yoho, Jeramiah Dooley — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

This episode Of GitHub at Work covers the September 2025 GitHub releases, with a focus on GitHub Spark, Copilot, and MCP updates. Deep dive into GitHub Universe, the general availability of the Copilot coding agent, and Copilot Spaces. Hosted by Jeramiah Dooley and featuring technical expert April Yoho.

For the complete October 2025 Enterprise Roundup: https://resources.github.com/enterprise-content-roundup/october/

Key capabilities that are still in Preview as of today are: GitHub Spark, Upgrade assistant for Java in VS Code and Code feedback in VS Code. If you ever need to figure out which GitHub Copilot capabilities are in Preview, go to https://github.com/features/preview and scroll down to see a list of features and what stage of release they are at.

S01E02 Why Junior Devs Aren’t Obsolete

GitHub — Thu, 2 Oct 2025 17:03:14 +0000

This episode recaps August 2025 GitHub releases, including Copilot billing, secret scanning, CodeQL, Dependabot, and GitHub Actions. The deep dive explores developer joy in the AI era, junior developer relevance, and best practices for successful Copilot rollouts. Hosted by Jeramiah Dooley with featured technical guest Christopher Harrison.

For complete notes and links visit September '05 Enterprise Roundup.

Junior developers aren’t obsolete: Here’s how to thrive in the age of AI
Far from being replaced, junior engineers can become your secret weapon by mastering prompt engineering, AI-aided debugging, and domain-specific model fine-tuning.

S01E01 GitHub Copilot's September Updates and Agentic Future

Christopher Harrison, Jeramiah Dooley — Thu, 2 Oct 2025 16:49:00 +0000

This episode covers 68 GitHub updates from August 2025, with a focus on Copilot's new agent features, integrations (Raycast, JetBrains), and AI model support (GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok Code Fast 1). Also, a deep dive into GitHub Universe, agentic development, and the MCP Server's open-sourcing and security. Hosted by Jeramiah Dooley with featured technical guest Christopher Harrison.

For complete notes and links visit September '05 Enterprise Roundup.

Trailer

Jeramiah Dooley — Wed, 1 Oct 2025 20:03:09 +0000

Welcome to the GitHub at Work Podcast, a show that provides real, no-nonsense insights to help developers and leaders build better together. Dive into the "why behind the what" from the GitHub enterprise universe. Hosted by GitHub's own Jeramiah Dooley and featuring insights from technical experts, it's time to take GitHub to Work.