953: Why v0 creator left Vercel to fix GitHub (GOAT Jared Palmer)

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Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Scott and Wes sit down with Jared Palmer of GitHub (formerly of Vercel) to unpack all the biggest announcements from GitHub Universe 2025. They dive into the future of developer workflows with agents, how GitHub is rethinking project interfaces, and where there’s still room to improve the dev experience. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! GitHub Universe Recap. 00:21 Who is Jared Palmer? 01:19 The developer workflow with agents. 03:33 Opening ongoing tasks in VS Code. 06:08 The benefit of agnostic agents. 07:04 GitHub’s biggest opportunities for improvement. 09:38 What’s your interface of choice for a new project? Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Hi, man.
0:01.0	Hey, Jared.
0:02.0	Hey.
0:03.0	How's it going?
0:04.0	Thanks a lot for coming out.
0:05.0	Thanks for the response. Yeah. Yeah. That's sick. No, I don't think so. We just finished recording our like recap and I was like, oh, I'm, I check my DMs. Yeah. Just there is fine, I think. Yeah. Yeah, anywhere you want. What's up everybody? We got Jared Palmer in the house today.
0:21.5	We're at GitHub Universe.
0:22.8	Always needs to pull them in.
0:24.6	Jared just popped out. Yeah, anywhere you want. What's up, everybody? We got Jared Palmer in the house today.
0:21.5	We're at GitHub Universe.
0:22.7	Always needs to pull them in.
0:24.6	Jared just popped in, and we're stoked to talk to him.
0:27.3	You recently started a job at Microsoft slash GitHub and are fixing all the problems.
0:32.5	What's going on?
0:33.2	I don't know about all the problems.
0:34.2	Yeah.
0:35.1	Yeah, I'm doing my best.
0:41.7	Yeah. I'm like, it's like day 13, 14. I was going to say, yeah, it feels like it's fresh. It's fresh. Yeah. It's fresh. So I'm still
0:46.2	acclimating. Okay. But there's a lot of shared DNA between previously I was at Versel.
0:52.3	Yeah. And Guillermo, CEO of Versel, and Nat Friedman are very close friends.
0:58.0	And Nat used to be the CEO of GitHub.
1:00.0	And so there's a lot of corporate DNA, I think, that is permeated through the evolution of the companies.
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