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Thomas Dohmke

@ashtom

Building GitHub Copilot for the sake of developer happiness. CEO @GitHub

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We promised, we delivered. The GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code is now open source under the MIT license. This means, you can: 🔍 Explore the code on GitHub 🛠️ Open PRs, file issues & contribute 💬 See what prompts/context we send to LLMs 🤖 Use Copilot agent mode to

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🚨 “90% of code will be written by AI.” So… is this the end of developers? At VivaTech in Paris, I asked GitHub's CEO Thomas Dohmke. His answer? ❌ “No — it’s the BEST time ever to be a developer.” Here’s why 👇

🚨 “90% of code will be written by AI.”
So… is this the end of developers?

At VivaTech in Paris, I asked <a href="/github/">GitHub</a>'s CEO Thomas Dohmke.

His answer?
❌ “No — it’s the BEST time ever to be a developer.”

Here’s why 👇
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90% of code will be written by agents, to give developers time back to do the things they really like. But human developers will always be needed, we as developers have skills agents don‘t. „It‘s agents for the sake of happiness“ - Thomas Dohmke GitHub CEO #WeAreDevs

90% of code will be written by agents, to give developers time back to do the things they really like.
But human developers will always be needed, we as developers have skills agents don‘t.

„It‘s agents for the sake of happiness“

- <a href="/ashtom/">Thomas Dohmke</a> GitHub CEO

#WeAreDevs
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Being a developer has never been about how fast we can type code. No, being a developer has always been about our ideas. The code is simply what represents them on the computer. This will never change. My remarks from WeAreDevelopers 2025: linkedin.com/pulse/agents-s…

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Coding isn’t dead – it’s reborn. So the way we teach is changing accordingly. Or, as University of Washington professor Magda Balazinska puts it: “We have never graduated coders. We have always graduated software engineers.” ✨ geekwire.com/2025/coding-is…

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Mad respect for the Visual Studio Code team who are actively listening to feedback about Copilot. 100% clear they care a whole lot about their product. This is what it takes to build something great. If you are a Visual Studio Code user and you want to improve Copilot, check out this thread.

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I want every 8-year-old who learns Python in school to know: you are a developer. AI is not here to eliminate your dreams, it’s here to scale them. You belong in the community. And you will have a place in the future of programming. 💫 youtube.com/watch?v=L4nAzy…