Semantic search at Github

Github is many things besides source control. It's a social network, even though not everyone realizes it. It's a vast repository of code. It's a ticketing and project management system. And of course, it has search as well.

In this episode, Kyle interviews Hamel Husain about his research into semantic code search.

Guest

Hamel Husain: I’m a machine learning engineer with 20+ years of experience. I’ve worked at Airbnb and GitHub, including early LLM research used by OpenAI for code understanding. I’ve also led and contributed to popular open-source machine-learning tools. I’m currently working to bring data science back to AI: helping teams debug, analyze, and measure their systems. I call this “evals,” and it’s the focus of my teaching, consulting, and writing.