Dohmke: AI agents remain far from replacing median developers in systems thinking
Thomas Dohmke · No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke · Mar 13, 2025 · at 4:48
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke discusses the limitations of AI coding agents when decomposing abstract ideas into systems architecture.
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“I think that's the part where we're far away from agents actually being good enough to take a very rough idea and break it down to small pieces without you as developer or as architect, or even when planning your travel, constantly getting questions back of what decisions you want to make, you know, what database, what cloud, like imagine you give the agent a task saying, you know, build GitHub or build a mobile app or something like it will just be not specific enough, right? So that's the systems thinking that I think the medium developer will not be replaced by agent.”
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