GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Building Copilot, and the the Future of Software Development
GitHub Copilot is the first blockbuster product built on top of OpenAI’s GPT models. Thomas Dohmke about how a small team at GitHub built on top of GPT-3 and quickly created a product that developers love—and can’t live without. Thomas tells us how the product has grown from simple autocomplete to a fully featured workspace for enterprise teams.
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke leads the company that invented collaborative coding and is now at the forefront of AI-powered software development. In this episode, he discusses how GitHub Copilot has become a blockbuster product, growing to account for more than 40 percent of GitHub’s revenue growth with an annual revenue run rate of $2 billion. Dohmke envisions a future where AI tools like Copilot will empower a billion developers by 2030, democratizing access to coding and transforming the software development landscape.
Thomas Dohmke: The human brain is still so much more advanced than the transformer models and the diffusion models and the other types of models that we have for image recognition and whatnot that we have today. And, you know, it remains to be seen if you can kind of like add that sentience piece to it. But today I’m not seeing it, and I haven’t seen any research that’s telling me that that’s coming anytime soon.
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