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Testing the Podhome App

Testing the Podhome App

How GitHub Engineers Actually Work with AI in 2026

· 35 min · Episode 2

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In this episode, I sit down with Brittany Ellich, Staff Engineer at GitHub, to talk about what software engineering looks like in the age of AI. We explore her path from working on GitHub Actions to building metered billing systems for enterprise products, where accuracy matters more than speed and even small mistakes can have major business impact. Brittany shares how billing for usage-based products like Copilot and Actions becomes especially challenging in distributed systems, across cloud environments, enterprise configurations, and data residency boundaries.

We also dig into how her…

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