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What if your dev team loved their workflows? Jason Gates from Sandia National Labs joins GitKraken’s VP of Developer Research, Jeremy Castile, to unpack the real-world challenges and powerful benefits of developer workflow standardization. In this candid conversation, Jason shares lessons from helping dozens of teams improve their software delivery — from reducing friction and boosting velocity, to creating joyful, productive developer experiences. They dive into.

Context engineering isn't just an AI buzzword. It's how high-performing dev teams are transforming productivity at scale. Chris Geoghegan, VP of Product at Zapier, breaks down why individual AI gains don't compound and what your team needs to do instead.In this GitKon session, learn how to.

In this episode, Daniel Roe, Lead Maintainer of the Nuxt framework, discusses his journey from studying law and theology to leading a major open-source framework. He explains Nuxt's unique governance and how Nuxt manages contributions through volunteer-driven work, LLM-powered issue triage, and creating welcoming spaces for newcomers to open source. This week, our chat touches on a variety of topics including.

Give your AI-assistants and agents the repo context they need with GitKraken MCP. Now bundled with GitLens for IDEs. Give your agents full Git context, streamline decisions, and work faster across VS Code, Cursor, and your favorite AI tools. See how MCP connects your repos, providers, and Git into one smart, seamless layer if Git intelligence your agents and you can use. Perfect for developers building with AI. Perfect for teams who want clarity, speed, and zero context loss.

GitKon 2025 is the virtual conference where developers and engineering leaders come together to elevate the craft of software delivery. From AI-assisted workflows to modern DevEx practices, come learn with us and ship the future. Check out the full agenda & register today: tr.ee/GitKon.

Your laptop is powerful enough to run your own LLM. Here's why that matters While centralized AI tools help teams, they miss something critical: your personal knowledge. Meeting notes, tips, tricks, and context only you have. Kyle Fransham shows how running a local LLM changes the game. Index your own "master document of knowledge" and query it right in your dev environment. No cloud needed. The tools are accessible. The setup is simple. And the impact? Game-changing for how you work.

GitKraken Desktop 11.6 is here, shaped by real developer feedback. This release introduces support for shallow clones, a long-requested feature that improves performance for large repos and CI workflows. Simply open a shallow-cloned repo from the New Tab and you’re in. We’ve also made GitKraken AI more controllable and more contextual.