Universe Week, Hackable Badges, and GitHub’s Open Source Dilemma

Cassidy and GPS welcome GitHub VP of Developer Relations (and original GitHub Podcast host) Martin Woodward. Martin reflects on attending every Universe since its earliest days, then digs into what he calls one of the trickiest open problems facing GitHub right now: as AI makes it dramatically easier to generate a pull request, open source maintainers are being flooded with well-meaning but low-effort contributions. He also goes deep on this year’s Universe conference badge, now with an accelerometer that auto-flips the screen, capacitive PCB game controls, and a Copilot agent that can write…