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