E179: LLMs for Software Maintenance (the Grit Story)

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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E179: LLMs for Software Maintenance (the Grit Story) is an episode from The OSS Startup Podcast by Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC).

This episode is 00:43:01 long.

This episode was published on Aug 18, 2025.

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