The best recruiting signal is often sitting in public GitHub data.
Today, we’re open sourcing the data layer we use to help founders recruit exceptional engineers.
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1/ Applications are now open for Powerset Cohort 4, where top founders get their own $ 1M fund for angel investing. Last year, Anton Osika (Lovable) and other elite founders joined Cohort 3. Our founders have deployed $ 20M so far and are outperforming top VCs.
We replicated the @SemiAnalysis_ estimate that ~4% of public GitHub commits are being authored by Claude Code. Moreover, this figure is growing exponentially.
We dumped GitHub into DuckLake. Here’s what we found:
• Growth rate of new repos doubled in 2025
• Microsoft leads Big Tech in repo creation, contrary to narrative the company is closed
• a16z captured nearly as much OSS value as all other early-stage VCs combined
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