Martin Woodward
British computer scientist
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Oct 14, 2026
IM 892: Pants-based Benchmarks - GitHub's Agent Revolution
16:55
17:00
17:14

Martin WoodwardGUEST
So DevOps, for folks that don't know, it's, it's, um, developer and operations.

Martin WoodwardGUEST
You know, it's basically, um, moving with a lot more velocity, coding a lot faster, um, you know, working faster by being closer to your customer and, and getting things out quicker.

Martin WoodwardGUEST
And whereas in the old days, like, um, you know, you used to deploy once every two years or something like that, you know, if you're building Windows operating systems.
20 MINS LATER
IM 892: Pants-based Benchmarks - GitHub's Agent Revolution
16:55
17:00
17:14

Martin WoodwardGUEST
So DevOps, for folks that don't know, it's, it's, um, developer and operations.

Martin WoodwardGUEST
You know, it's basically, um, moving with a lot more velocity, coding a lot faster, um, you know, working faster by being closer to your customer and, and getting things out quicker.

Martin WoodwardGUEST
And whereas in the old days, like, um, you know, you used to deploy once every two years or something like that, you know, if you're building Windows operating systems.
20 MINS LATER
Intelligent Machines 892: Pants-based Benchmarks
8:56

Martin WoodwardGUEST
The agentic coding kind of started with Copilot, and we kind of proved out...
8 MINS LATER
Intelligent Machines 892: Pants-based Benchmarks
16:55
17:00
17:14

Martin WoodwardGUEST
So DevOps, for folks that don't know, it's, it's, um, developer and operations.

Martin WoodwardGUEST
You know, it's basically, um, m- moving with a lot more velocity, coding a lot faster, um, you know, working faster by being closer to your customer and, and getting things out quicker.

Martin WoodwardGUEST
Whereas in the old days, like, um, you know, you used to deploy once every two years or something like that, you know, if you're building Windows operating systems.
20 MINS LATER
Intelligent Machines 892: Pants-based Benchmarks
8:56

Martin WoodwardGUEST
The agentic coding kind of started with Copilot, and we kind of proved out...
8 MINS LATER
Intelligent Machines 892: Pants-based Benchmarks
8 MINS LATER
Fashionably late
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Martin WoodwardGUEST
So we, we use what's called a, a locks philosophy, so lots of copies keep stuff safe, you know? You have a copy on your machine, you share it with us, now GitHub has a copy.

Martin WoodwardGUEST
But we thought, "Well, that's not good enough, you know, we need to do better than this." So we have lots of archives everywhere.

Martin WoodwardGUEST
And then we worked with, um, a set of experts on how can we archive the world's open source software? How can we take snapshots of that and put it somewhere safe? So we have a copy of, like, the most popular open source software.

Martin WoodwardGUEST
We have that in the Bodleian Library, in Alexandra Bibliotheca, in Stanford Library in, in like a, in like a pretty box, 'cause it turns out humanity values pretty things, so that in 100, 1,000 years' time somebody would see that and think, "Ooh, this must have value.

Martin WoodwardGUEST
What is it?" With the Arctic Code Vault, what we did was we took all of the open source software in the world that's on GitHub, and we put it onto essentially film, and then we, we buried it in a coal mine, in an abandoned coal mine in Svalbard, which is sort of round the corner from where the Arctic Sea Vault is and things like that.