E179: LLMs for Software Maintenance (the Grit Story)
Aug 18, 2025•43 min
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Episode description
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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