Idan Gazit

@gazit.me

I lead githubnext.com 💫 I use bsky mostly for professional things. So this is my 🌶️ spicy LinkedIn. My thoughts are mine, not my employer's. Personal/political stuff on Mastodon: https://babka.social/@idan

I am wondering if in the future it will be: - my agent and your agent sharing a task (agents end up being everyone's very personalized avatar in the creative space) - we are communicating within earshot of multiple agents who do work (they are not intrinsically linked to either of us)

There should be a zero-width joiner that allows me to flip any emoji directionally. Like I want 🤞 to have a horizontally mirrored variant so I can emoji "both fingers crossed" but have it look like a left and right hand instead of two right hands

Lettermatic ✕ GitHub Next: the inside story of Monaspace, a truly groundbreaking advancement for how we display code. We knew that Lettermatic would go deep, but we were still amazed by their level of knowledge and craft. See their case study below, and get the fonts at monaspace.githubnext.com

Monaspace

An innovative superfamily of fonts for code

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Riley Cran@rileycran.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/monas...

This week on Overcommitted, we talk with Idan Gazit, the head of research at GitHub next. His team created the original GitHub copilot. He shares with us what innovation work actually looks like from the inside.

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I have crappy vision. I bump up the text size on my phone to make it easier for me to see. Half of my apps have weird text overflow bugs as a result. Thanks, I hate it

My latest post is out! 🔄 Introduce "Semi-automatic Performance Engineering" 🏆 A Grand Challenge for CS 🧩 Why it's hard, heterogeneous ✨ Show GitHub Agentic Workflows "Daily Perf Improver" 🔮 What's Possible, Potential, and Delusional 🧹 Let's tackle technical debt! dsyme.net/2025/10/12/t...

Introducing Semi-automatic Performance Engineering

(This blog post is written in personal tone, but relates to our work at GitHub Next and may be moved to in future. A huge thank you to Peli de Halleux, Joe Zhou, Eddie Aftandilian, Russell Horton, …

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1/ 🚀 New from Next: Agentic Workflows, a research demonstrator exploring natural-language programming for GitHub Actions. It’s one concrete manifestation of what we’re calling “Continuous AI,” focusing on repo-level automation you can describe in plain English. 🔗 github.com/githubnext/gh-aw

GitHub - githubnext/gh-aw: GitHub Agentic Workflows from GitHub Next

GitHub Agentic Workflows from GitHub Next. Contribute to githubnext/gh-aw development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The Svelte 5 guide has everything from reactivity and how it works, when to use and avoid effects, events, bindings, components and composition, transitions and animations to using third party libraries and making external systems reactive. 🔥

Sensationalist news be like: "Octocat to be executed at dawn by firing squad" I've lived through integration apocalypses before at Heroku/Salesforce. This is not that. GitHub is still GitHub despite the gods playing musical chairs up there on Mt. Olympus.

For the last 10 years I’ve been wanting a chance to design the future—not tomorrow, or the next thing, but 3 things after that. The 5 year horizon. To explore design fiction, maybe even a bit of science fiction? Tomorrow, I get to give it a shot with my first day @githubnext.com !

2024 was a year of endings for me. I stopped using tools like Twitter which have been central to my life and career. I stopped consuming sources of news that I've consumed for decades. These things ache sometimes like lost limbs. I think that maybe a lot of us are in this vibe, together but alone

The Verge is shitty journalism no matter how many readers it has. Some stuff is good, but their spicier takes verge on (badumtss) tabloid gossip and thinly veiled editorial agendas. Much like techbros pretend that their opinions are valid in fields they don't understand.