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Welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge.
It’s AI coding week at Decoder. You just heard Casey Newton’s interview with the CEO behind Cursor, Michael Truell. Now, I have a conversation with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke.
In many ways, GitHub Copilot set off the current AI coding boom. But since Thomas was last on Decoder a year ago, the rise of vibe coding has shifted the buzz to newer platforms like Cursor and Windsurf. As you’ll hear in our conversation, Thomas is thinking a lot about the competition, as well as GitHub’s role in the future of software development.
It’s a good time to be having this conversation. Thomas has a bird’s-eye view of where the industry is headed, and I wanted to know how he thinks the role of a software engineer will keep changing with AI and when I’ll feel comfortable vibe coding myself.
This is Decoder after all, so I couldn’t have him on the show without also asking what life is like these days running GitHub as its own company within Microsoft.
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