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No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Mar 13, 2025 · 28 mentions

• ▶ 3:04 Thomas Dohmke Now, how do you know whether you should assign co-pilot to this, um, the agent to it, um, or, or whether you need to refine the issue to be more specific, right?
• ▶ 4:48 Thomas Dohmke I think that's the part where we're far away from, from agents actually being good enough to take a very rough idea and break it down to small pieces without you as, as, um, as developer or as architect, or, or even when planning your…
• ▶ 7:15 Thomas Dohmke We do a lot of experimentation, uh, with A-B testing, um, where we flight, uh, new versions, uh, or new fine-tuned versions of a model, um, uh, after the offline test, you know, in an online test, first with GitHub and Microsoft employees,… 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 9:23 Thomas Dohmke Or product management, sales, um, sales enablement, all these functions are in GitHub issues and GitHub discussions and GitHub repos.
• ▶ 9:35 Thomas Dohmke You know, the first thing I do in the morning is open the GitHub app on, on my mobile phone and, and then Slack, um, as a lot of our, you know, operations company chat runs through Slack.
• ▶ 10:56 Thomas Dohmke You know, some of the folks, uh, from Microsoft and GitHub on, on your podcast, uh, in, in the past and, uh, in the early days, you know, soon after we launched Copilot Preview, uh, it already wrote like, 25% of the code. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 19:15 Thomas Dohmke While at the extreme other end of the spectrum with web development and AI, you're going to be able, and you're, we're already there, like, you know, just look at a, a ten-year-old, give them, you know, um, a tool like, like Copilot or,…
• ▶ 20:32 Thomas Dohmke Um, we have, we have been early phases, um, ourselves with that, with, with Copilot workspace, uh, where we have like a spec and a brainstorming agent that, um, basically looks at what you wrote in a GitHub issue, compares that with the…
• ▶ 22:26 Thomas Dohmke One of our strongest belief at GitHub is developer choice. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 25:09 Thomas Dohmke You know, we started Copilot almost five years ago, um, June, 20, 20.
• ▶ 27:31 Thomas Dohmke The other question you could ask is when do the CEO of GitHub get to the point where my backlog is empty?
• ▶ 37:44 Thomas Dohmke Like if you think about Copilot, Copilot, um, you know, costs, um, for businesses, 20 dollars per user per month, that's actually almost exactly the same price as you pay for GitHub Enterprise, uh, which is 21 dollars per user per month. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 37:44 Thomas Dohmke Like if you think about Copilot, Copilot, um, you know, costs, um, for businesses, 20 dollars per user per month, that's actually almost exactly the same price as you pay for GitHub Enterprise, uh, which is 21 dollars per user per month.
• ▶ 38:29 Thomas Dohmke I mean, you know, you're, you're willing to pay more, uh, for something that, you know, probably five years ago, if I told you autocompletion is going to be that standalone feature to win by AI that, that costs, uh, more than the average…
• ▶ 39:42 Thomas Dohmke In GitHub models, which is our model catalog, um, we have, uh, open source or open rates model like, like Lama, 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 45:38 Thomas Dohmke Also an infinite amount of patience, um, because, you know, copilot doesn't run out of patience. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 49:20 Thomas Dohmke And I think that's, you know, unification in 1990 and then, you know, um, through the steps of my life, including, you know, to become the GitHub CEO through, you know, random decisions, or at the time they felt random.