
Thomas Dohmke
@ashtom
Building GitHub Copilot for the sake of developer happiness. CEO @GitHub
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https://github.com/ashtom 27-03-2008 18:34:54
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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


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…

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…

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.
