TypeScript’s Takeover, AI’s Lift-Off: Inside the 2025 Octoverse Report
· 37 min · Episode 42
Episode TypeScript’s Takeover, AI’s Lift-Off: Inside the 2025 Octoverse Report
Andrea and Kedasha sit down with data whisperer Jeff Luszcz, one of the wizards behind GitHub’s annual Octoverse report, to unpack this year’s biggest shifts. They get into why TypeScript overtook Python on GitHub, how AI-assisted “vibe coding” and agentic workflows are reshaping everyday engineering, and what it means that more than one new developer joins GitHub every second. From 1.12B open source contributions and 518M merged PRs to COBOL’s unexpected comeback, global growth (hello India, Brazil and Indonesia), and “security by default” with CodeQL and Dependabot, this episode turns the numbers into next steps for your career and your open source projects.
Links mentioned in the episode:
https://octoverse.github.com
https://github.com/jeffrey-luszcz
https://github.com/features/copilot
https://codeql.github.com
https://docs.github.com/code-security/dependabot
https://docs.github.com/code-security/secret-scanning/introduction/about-secret-scanning
https://www.typescriptlang.org
https://www.python.org
https://nextjs.org
https://vitejs.dev
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.copilot
https://www.home-assistant.io
https://code.visualstudio.com
https://github.com/explore
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Links in the notes 15
- https://octoverse.github.com
- https://github.com/jeffrey-lush
- https://github.com/features/copilot
- https://codeql.github.com
- https://docs.github.com/code-security/dependabot
- https://docs.github.com/code-security/secret-scanning/introduction/about-secret-scanning
- https://www.typescriptlang.org
- https://www.python.org
- https://nextjs.org
- https://vitejs.dev
- https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.copilot
- https://www.home-assistant.io
- https://code.visualstudio.com
- https://github.com/explore
- https://pcm.adswizz.com
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