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The Dark Factory: What's Left for Humans When Agents Ship the Code | Robert Brennan, OpenHands
Pair programming with AI gets you 20 to 30% faster. Robert Brennan builds for the workflow that gets you 10x. In this episode of First Commit, Eliya Elon and Laura Hamilton sit down with Robert Brennan, CEO and co-founder of OpenHands — the open source research project that became one of the most starred AI coding agent repos on GitHub. Robert has spent over a decade in commercial open source. Early on, as Cursor blows up and every competitor pivots toward an IDE, his team makes the opposite ...
23 Jul 2026
The Web Belongs to Agents Now | Aviv Shamny, Limy AI
40% of searches now end without a click, and on many sites AI agents already outnumber human visitors. So who are you actually marketing to? In this episode of First Commit, Eliya Elon and Laura Hamilton sit down with Aviv Shamny, co-founder and CEO of Limy AI. The problem Aviv and his co-founders chase is one most marketers haven't priced in: AI agents now discover, fetch, and convert on products across the web, while the old signals (clicks, impressions, organic rankings) erode underneath t...
9 Jul 2026
Why Math Might Be the Last Language AI Hasn't Conquered | Carina Hong, Axiom
Math might be the last programming language AI hasn't conquered. In this episode of First Commit, Eliya Elon and Laura Hamilton sit down with Carina Hong, founder and CEO of Axiom, the company building an AI mathematician — and, fresh off a $200M Series A at a $1.6B valuation led by Menlo Ventures, one of the most-watched bets on "verified AI." Hong leaves a Stanford PhD in March 2025 to chase a specific window: reasoning models maturing, coding capability compounding, and the formal-proof la...
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