Yahoo Finance caught up with Dohmke to talk about AI and where it's headed, along with the economic impact he's expecting to see from the technology.GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke speaks during day two of Collision 2022 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. There have been a number of moments in the AI space in the last year that have changed how people are thinking about our industry and, quite frankly, every professional worker.
It has drastically supercharged software development because of the impact that Copilot has on writing code. If you think about it, developers spend most of their day editing, so that's where value is created. ... Copilot lets them stay in that flow and lets them solve the problem much quicker. At the end of the day, I think it will be the human's choice of how much AI they want to use [and] how many tools they want to use — whether you want to do the dishes manually or use the dishwasher. I'm not saying the dishwasher has AI, but it's a nice metaphor. Most kitchens now have a dishwasher because we don't consider washing the dishes with our hands [as] necessarily an activity that brings us joy.