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title: '**Frontier Tuning**'
description: >-
  **Frontier Tuning** — in this channel's captured material, a mechanism within
  GitHub's agent-era playbook, discussed by GitHub COO **Kyle Daigle** in an
  interview at Microsoft Build, that concerns how the company adjusts its use of
  frontier models as AI agents reshape who builds software. It is treated as
  part of the same mechanism layer as **model routing** and **hill climbing**,
  in service of handling a flood of agent-created pull requests while keeping
  **developer choice** central to GitHub's strategy. [^OCEVqy8kl7Q@72]
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  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/frontier-tuning-5d564a105601
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  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/frontier-tuning-5d564a105601.md
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# \*\*Frontier Tuning\*\*

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/frontier-tuning-5d564a105601

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Frontier Tuning** — in this channel's captured material, a mechanism within GitHub's agent-era playbook, discussed by GitHub COO **Kyle Daigle** in an interview at Microsoft Build, that concerns how the company adjusts its use of frontier models as AI agents reshape who builds software. It is treated as part of the same mechanism layer as **model routing** and **hill climbing**, in service of handling a flood of agent-created pull requests while keeping **developer choice** central to GitHub's strategy. [^OCEVqy8kl7Q@72]

> interview at Microsoft Build, 28 minutesThe term appears in the channel's coverage of GitHub's agent-era strategy, captured in an interview at Microsoft Build where GitHub's COO **Kyle Daigle** walks through how AI agents are reshaping who builds software [^OCEVqy8kl7Q@72]. In that conversation, **Frontier Tuning** sits alongside the interview's other mechanism-level themes — scale numbers, **model routing**, and **hill climbing** — as part of the playbook GitHub uses to manage an agent-driven flood of pull requests while keeping **developer choice** anchored at the center of its strategy. Explore the full interview to understand how this tuning idea fits into the broader shift in who builds software and why the business model is moving with it.- **Frontier Tuning** is discussed within GitHub's agent-era playbook, alongside **model routing** and **hill climbing**.- The framing comes from GitHub COO **Kyle Daigle**'s interview at Microsoft Build.- It connects to the interview's larger themes: the flood of agent-created pull requests, the shifting business model, and **developer choice** as GitHub's anchor.