Thomas Dohmke

It's almost like we are enabling a world where the humanity constantly runs the distributed denial of service, DDoS attack against the whole tech industry, right?

And so the scale that you have to build

And that's why companies like NVIDIA have been thriving so much over recent years.

The scale that you have to build is magnitudes larger than what we have today.

The most crucial thing, especially in my role as CEO of GitHub, is you've got to meet the customer.

For us as software developers, you've got to meet them where they are.

You've got to bring the products where they're already doing their work.

It is much harder to convince you, you know, to change everything on your computer or in your life, in your house, because to convince you of that new future and ultimately sell you that future instead of telling you, here, install this into, you know, your existing environment and you get AI features.

And, you know, when we launched Copilot in 2022, we didn't even focus on this.

There wasn't generative AI.

It wasn't a hype.

And so we mentioned, we called it the AI pair programmer, but ultimately it was positioned as something that makes your coding experience a little bit better.

And it was very much in the background in the IDE, which is the editor.

And when you typed it, it gave you a suggestion.

The flip side of that is that you got to, you know, have a vision.

We often call this the North Star of what that future looks like.

And the challenge, you know, specific with AI is that there's two camps.

There's the one that believes, you know, the artificial super intelligence or general intelligence is coming.

And that's just replacing everything as we know it, because it's going to be so intelligent that, you know, it doesn't really make sense to even write, you know, have an editor anymore and C code.

And maybe that future is coming.