Walden Yan
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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But there's actually quite a bit of tuning you have to do here because you can imagine that actually, like...
We recently have Devon Review, for example.
Devon Review will post comments on his own PR, and then Devon has to then go... He answers his own comments, which is really loopy.
Yeah.
So when Devon fixes his own comments, you might be scared that, oh, maybe I'll infinite loop.
But we've put a lot of work into making sure it doesn't, both by making sure that the comments are high signal, but also that the agent is thoughtful about what comments that it immediately goes and tries to fix and what comments is like, wait a second, I think you're wrong.
Actually, that's one of my favorite moments is when Devon tells me that I'm wrong when I try to get it to do something different.
But tuning that behavior actually makes a big difference in terms of how useful the actual GitHub experience is.
Well, I'm curious, what is like the most common thing that people end up requesting that they still need on top of open spec when you help them go implement it?
Yeah, the thing we found is, so like MCPs, obviously it has been like, it's like really big explosion of, oh, you can go like integrate it with all these different things.
But to actually get the integration right and get the right experience, oftentimes we found that we had to go build our own ad hoc things.
I think Slack is a great example of this.
Like you could give your agent a Slack MCP and okay, you can post messages back to you on Slack.
But we actually use Devon like a coworker in Slack and that's how it's been built from the ground up.
But to do that, you actually need to like support webhooks that come back, right?
And then Devon has to respond in a natural way.
And then hopefully don't spam your threads too much and annoy the people in your company.
So you got to tune that experience just right.
Especially when there's a lot of back and forth.
Like we find that we actually had to go beyond the simple MCP integrations in these places.
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