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Ever feel like you're drowning in documentation scattered across Confluence, Slack, Jira, and Git commits? Kyle Fransham, Senior VP of R&D at Superna, shares why every developer should run their own local LLM and shows you exactly how to do it. In this GitKon talk, Kyle reveals how to turn your personal "master document of knowledge" into a queryable AI assistant running directly on your laptop. No cloud dependencies, no organization bottlenecks...just your own development copilot that understands your unique workflows, tips, and tribal knowledge.

Your AI coding assistant just got Git superpowers. GitKraken MCP (Model Context Protocol) brings repository intelligence directly into VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other AI-powered IDEs—so your agent stops guessing and starts understanding your actual workflow.

Stop wasting hours rediscovering your own work. Developer change logs shouldn't require commit archaeology every week. Bill Harding, CEO and Lead Developer at GitClear, breaks down how AI can finally automate one of development's most tedious intermittent tasks.

In this episode, Jayson Phillips, Head of Engineering at Magpie Literacy, tells us about his journey from marketing to engineering. He also shares insights into how he uses Obsidian as a Knowledge Management platform. This week, our chat touches on a variety of topics including.

The best developers we know aren't afraid of AI. They're learning to speak its language. GitHub Cloud Solutions Engineer Ambily Kavumkal Kamalasanan breaks down the new skills that separate thriving developers from those getting left behind.

Back to basics. Back to speed. GitKraken Desktop 11.5 is about fixing what was slowing you down. Large repos now open in seconds, stashes refresh instantly, and repos with thousands of refs load without breaking a sweat. Highlights: This release is about speed, reliability, and bringing GitKraken back to its core: a Git client that just works. And works fast. Welcome to 11.5.

Managing multiple repositories shouldn't mean running the same Git commands dozens of times. GitKraken CLI brings multi-repo actions, unified Git workflows, and standardization to command line developers who need bulk operations across their entire workspace. In this GitKon presentation, Louis Silvio (Software Engineer & Cloud Architect at GitKraken) demonstrates how the GitKraken CLI solves the context-switching chaos that slows down modern development teams.

Jeff Hollan (Snowflake Director of Product) gave a talk called "Building Adaptive Teams for AI" that addresses something we're all navigating: how career growth works when teams are adapting to AI workflows.

Rizel Scarlet (Staff Developer Advocate at Block) tackled a problem every developer should care about: apps that spy on users before they even know they need the service. Her solution? Build a privacy-first pregnancy app using AI agents and decentralized web nodes. This isn't just about pregnancy apps - it's about the future of user data ownership.