Thomas Dohmke

Where we are today in technology means a company like GitHub or Microsoft needs to be as agile as a 10-person startup.

And that is quite hard because we're running a big ship at the speed of a really small boat.

The nature of the software that companies are going to ask for is also going to change.

We will see a commoditization of software that is so simple that recreating that on the fly will replace those SaaS services.

But also, they have moved up what I call the abstraction ladder.

All of a sudden, with AI, we were able to get so much closer to how we're actually thinking, the language and the descriptions that we're thinking in.

I think Satya said between 20 and 30% of the code in our repositories was written by software.

So it was a bit broader in how he framed it.

I think, you know, the developer will do mostly what engineers actually do and how they define themselves, which is they're solving problems, implementing ideas, you know, they're taking...

The big idea you have in the morning, you know, it's Friday, 9 a.m.

here.

I'm sure many engineers here in the U.S.

look forward to a long weekend, but still have something that they want to get done.

And they're trying to figure out how they do that.

The work doesn't start with typing in your editor.

The work starts with reading up, you know, a GitHub issue or a specification or just taking what I have in my head and bringing it down into notes and, you know, models and things.

systems like Copilot play the first role here where you can brainstorm with them and say, hey, you know, I have this problem that I want to solve.

Very simple.

I want to build an app today.

Give me some thoughts of how I can do that.