GitHub’s CEO on Getting 15 Million Developers to Trust AI With Their Code

TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper goes in depth with Thomas Dohmke, the CEO of GitHub. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Here’s a link to the episode transcript.

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After Thomas Dohmke and his team first watched GPT-3 write code in June of 2020, they got straight to work. The product they built, GitHub Copilot, brought AI into workflows that developers already used—and it’s now the biggest player in the coding agent market.

Last week, Dan Shipper—who was on the ground at Microsoft Build—sat down with the GitHub CEO to talk about Copilot’s journey to 15 million users. In this episode of AI & I Dan and Dohmke go deep on GitHub’s newest agent, how it fits into today’s developer ecosystem, and the product decisions that brought it here.

You can check out their full conversation here: