Could GitLab + Coder = End of GitHub?

[1st Hand] field report on the potential partnership Microsoft should worry about

Hope this letter finds you all well.

So much still to unpack just from the agent conference, let alone trying to keep up with the lightspeed pace of AI running on more affordable hardware. (Unrealized local potential from models like Gemma 4b, Qwen 27b..)

But one of my most memorable encounters from the conference, (read this letter if you are not up to…