Everything announced at the Github Universe Keynote

Scott, Wes, and CJ report live from GitHub Universe in San Francisco, breaking down GitHub’s re-architecture for agent-scale traffic, the GitHub Copilot app, Copilot Fusion, Projects, Automations, and AI push protection. Plus hacked conference badges, a USB-C lanyard, and the Syntax macropad 🔥 Be the ~19,500th person to join our super tasty newsletter https://bit.ly/syntax_snackpack Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:08 Syntax Meetup Recap in San Francisco 02:10 Our Best Swag Ever: The USB-C Lanyard 04:11 The Syntax Macropad: How CJ and Wes Built a Web Configurator 07:37 GitHub Universe Swag, Good and Cringe, Plus the Matching Mugs 09:52 Hacking the GitHub Universe Badges: Wes’s Photo Booth Printer 13:15 Scott’s Badge: Pinball, a Bug Shooter and a Music Sequencer 15:34 The Scale of GitHub in 2026: Pushes, Commits and Actions 17:19 Performance and Reliability: How GitHub Is Re-Architecting for Scale 19:49 The GitHub Copilot Desktop App and Team Collaboration 21:10 Copilot Projects: Shared Chat and Agents Across Repos 22:15 Wishing for Sign In with ChatGPT in Copilot 23:37 Copilot Fusion: Single, Cascade and Critique Model Orchestration 27:22 Session Continuity Across Every Surface: Do We Still Need Editors? 29:24 Copilot Automations: Scheduled and Event-Driven Cloud Agents 31:06 Will Enterprise Buy-In Pull People Back to GitHub? 33:09 GitHub Advanced Security: Secret Scanning and AI Push Protection 35:20 Closing Remarks: 1% of the Code We’ll Write in Five Years 36:47 Developer Burnout, Constraints and Reading the YouTube Comments Meetup | https://syntax.fm/meetup Web Configurator | https://keyboard.syntax.fm/ GitHub Universe Badges | https://shop.pimoroni.com/en-ca Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents | https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents/ The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure | https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/the-bridge-to-agent-scale-git-infrastructure/ Working with projects in the GitHub Copilot app | https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/github-copilot-app/working-with-projects?utm_source=gh-universe-blog-projects-docs&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=universe-2026 Managing agent sessions | https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-on-github/use-copilot-agents/manage-and-track-agents About GitHub Copilot Fusion | https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/models/copilo