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E179: LLMs for Software Maintenance (the Grit Story)
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:43:01
Publish Date: 2025-08-18 20:36:38
Description:

Morgante Pell is the Founder of Grit, the developer tool that puts software maintenance on autopilot and was acquired by Honeycomb in April 2025.

In this episode, we dig into:

  • The Grit product and how LLMs have made software maintenance much more efficient

  • Launching GritQL - Grit's embedded query language for searching and transforming code

  • Their early focus on the JavaScript community

  • The motivation for Grit to open source

  • How AI generated code has put pressure on software maintenance

  • Where new problems have been created by AI-generated code

  • The acquisition by Honeycomb - motivation, integration, and how the deal happened

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