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AI & ML
- AI & ML
  Learn about artificial intelligence and machine learning across the GitHub ecosystem and the wider industry.
  - Generative AI
    Learn how to build with generative AI.
  - GitHub Copilot
    Change how you work with GitHub Copilot.
  - LLMs
    Everything developers need to know about LLMs.
  - Machine learning
    Machine learning tips, tricks, and best practices.
- How AI code generation works
  Explore the capabilities and benefits of AI code generation and how it can improve your developer experience.
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Developer skills
- Developer skills
  Resources for developers to grow in their skills and careers.
  - Application development
    Insights and best practices for building apps.
  - Career growth
    Tips & tricks to grow as a professional developer.
  - GitHub
    Improve how you use GitHub at work.
  - GitHub Education
    Learn how to move into your first professional role.
  - Programming languages & frameworks
    Stay current on what’s new (or new again).
- Get started with GitHub documentation
  Learn how to start building, shipping, and maintaining software with GitHub.
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Engineering
- Engineering
  Get an inside look at how we’re building the home for all developers.
  - Architecture & optimization
    Discover how we deliver a performant and highly available experience across the GitHub platform.
  - Engineering principles
    Explore best practices for building software at scale with a majority remote team.
  - Infrastructure
    Get a glimpse at the technology underlying the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform.
  - Platform security
    Learn how we build security into everything we do across the developer lifecycle.
  - User experience
    Find out what goes into making GitHub the home for all developers.
- How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
  Our engineering and security teams do some incredible work. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left.
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Enterprise software
- Enterprise software
  Explore how to write, build, and deploy enterprise software at scale.
  - Automation
    Automating your way to faster and more secure ships.
  - CI/CD
    Guides on continuous integration and delivery.
  - Collaboration
    Tips, tools, and tricks to improve developer collaboration.
  - DevOps
    DevOps resources for enterprise engineering teams.
  - DevSecOps
    How to integrate security into the SDLC.
  - Governance & compliance
    Ensuring your builds stay clean.
- GitHub recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Code Assistants
  Learn why Gartner positioned GitHub as a Leader for the second year in a row.
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News & insights
- News & insights
  Keep up with what’s new and notable from inside GitHub.
  - Company news
    An inside look at news and product updates from GitHub.
  - Product
    The latest on GitHub’s platform, products, and tools.
  - Octoverse
    Insights into the state of open source on GitHub.
  - Policy
    The latest policy and regulatory changes in software.
  - Research
    Data-driven insights around the developer ecosystem.
  - The library
    Older news and updates from GitHub.
- Unlocking the power of unstructured data with RAG
  Learn how to use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to capture more insights.
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Open Source
- Open Source
  Everything open source on GitHub.
  - Git
    The latest Git updates.
  - Maintainers
    Spotlighting open source maintainers.
  - Social impact
    How open source is driving positive change.
  - Gaming
    Explore open source games on GitHub.
- An introduction to innersource
  Organizations worldwide are incorporating open source methodologies into the way they build and ship their own software.
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Security
- Security
  Stay up to date on everything security.
  - Application security
    Application security, explained.
  - Supply chain security
    Demystifying supply chain security.
  - Vulnerability research
    Updates from the GitHub Security Lab.
  - Web application security
    Helpful tips on securing web applications.
- The enterprise guide to AI-powered DevSecOps
  Learn about core challenges in DevSecOps, and how you can start addressing them with AI and automation.
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AI

Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!

From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations.

Career growth

The cost of saying yes has changed

The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn’t. A framework for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era.

Maintainers

Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era

As contribution volume grows, mentorship signals are harder to read. The 3 Cs framework helps maintainers mentor more strategically… without burning out.

AI & ML

How Squad runs coordinated AI agents inside your repository

An inside look at repository-native orchestration with GitHub Copilot and the design patterns behind multi-agent workflows that stay inspectable, predictable, and collaborative.

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Career growth

Scaling AI opportunity across the globe: Learnings from GitHub and Andela

Developers connected to Andela share how they’re learning AI tools inside real production workflows.

Maintainers

Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. Here’s what we plan to do for maintainers.

Open source is hitting an “Eternal September.” As contribution friction drops, maintainers are adapting with new trust signals, triage approaches, and community-led solutions.

AI & ML

Agentic AI, MCP, and spec-driven development: Top blog posts of 2025

Explore the GitHub Blog’s top posts covering the biggest software development topics of the year.

News & insights

The new identity of a developer: What changes and what doesn’t in the AI era

Discover how advanced AI users are redefining software development—shifting from code producers to strategic orchestrators—through delegation, verification, and a new era of AI-fluent engineering.

AI & ML

Evolving GitHub Copilot’s next edit suggestions through custom model training

GitHub Copilot’s next edit suggestions just got faster, smarter, and more precise thanks to new data pipelines, reinforcement learning, and continuous model updates built for in-editor workflows.

News & insights

TypeScript, Python, and the AI feedback loop changing software development

An interview with the leader of GitHub Next, Idan Gazit, on TypeScript, Python, and what comes next.

AI & ML

The developer role is evolving. Here’s how to stay ahead.

AI is changing how software gets built. Explore the skills you need to keep up and stand out.

AI & ML

Gartner positions GitHub as a Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants for the second year in a row

Our commitment is to empower every developer and stay true to our north star by building an open, secure, and AI-powered platform that defines the future of software development.