GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Copilot, vibe coding, and AI’s next chapter

Aug 07, 2025 09:00 PM - 9 months ago 314684

Alex Heath

is a lawman editor and writer of the Command Line newsletter.

Welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday section impermanent big and lawman editor astatine The Verge.

It’s AI coding week astatine Decoder. You conscionable heard Casey Newton’s question and reply pinch the CEO down Cursor, Michael Truell. Now, I person a speech pinch GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke.

In galore ways, GitHub Copilot group disconnected the existent AI coding boom. But since Thomas was last connected Decoder a twelvemonth ago, the emergence of vibe coding has shifted the buzz to newer platforms for illustration Cursor and Windsurf. As you’ll perceive successful our conversation, Thomas is reasoning a batch astir the competition, arsenic good arsenic GitHub’s domiciled successful the early of package development.

It’s a bully clip to beryllium having this conversation. Thomas has a bird’s-eye position of wherever the manufacture is headed, and I wanted to cognize really he thinks the domiciled of a package technologist will support changing pinch AI and erstwhile I’ll consciousness comfortable vibe coding myself.

This is Decoder aft all, truthful I couldn’t person him connected the show without besides asking what life is for illustration these days moving GitHub arsenic its ain institution wrong Microsoft.

If you’d for illustration to publication much connected what we talked astir successful this episode, cheque retired the links below:

  • Developers, Reinvented | ⁠Thomas Dohmke / GitHub⁠
  • Developer Odyssey | ⁠Thomas Dohmke / GitHub⁠
  • Why tech is racing to adopt AI coding, pinch Cursor’s Michael Truell | ⁠Decoder⁠
  • GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says AI needs title to thrive | ⁠⁠⁠Decoder⁠⁠⁠
  • OpenAI’s caller GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub | The Verge
  • Up to 30 percent of immoderate Microsoft codification is now written by AI | ⁠The Verge⁠
  • GitHub launches its AI app-making instrumentality successful preview | ⁠The Verge⁠
  • Microsoft is getting fresh for GPT-5 pinch a caller Copilot smart mode | ⁠The Verge⁠
  • Zuckerberg: AI will constitute astir Meta codification wrong 18 months | ⁠Engadget

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