According to foreign media TechCrunch, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke recently shared his views on the relationship between artificial intelligence and software development at the TC Disrupt today event.
Thomas Dohmke believes that artificial intelligence and software development are now inseparable, driven by auxiliary tools such as Copilot and its related Copilot Chat, and with these software, Microsoft has extended AI technology to individual consumers.
However, it is found that Thomas Dohmke insisted that the snowballing artificial intelligence revolution would not sound the death knell for the software development industry.
Dohmke claimed that industry demand for software developers will continue to exceed supply. Thomas Dohmke himself, like many other technology leaders, has long insisted that AI tools such as Copilot are only used to improve developer productivity, not replace it.
The amount of software is only going to grow exponentially in ten years, we have more and more lines of code to manage, we have more and more ideas, and frankly, every company is a software company now.Thomas Dohmke mentioned that the reason why the industry still has a large demand for software developers is mainly because there is a lot of “old” code. For example, banks and financial institutions are still running COBOL code from the 1960s, and the code was not written based on unit testing and CI/CD, so someone has to maintain it and want to convert the relevant COBOL code to Java or Python.
