GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has told TechCentral that the Microsoft-owned company hopes to use AI to grow its user base tenfold in the next decade.
tools into its platform, designed to help developers improve their productivity, is key to the platform’s strategy to grow its user base tenfold – from 100 million to a billion developers in the next decade., who spoke to TechCentral at the Africa Tech Festival in Cape Town last week, AI development tools are not only boosting productivity for professional developers but also making code more accessible to students, hobbyists and even children who want to learn to code.
As a Microsoft subsidiary, GitHub played a big role in the development of Microsoft’s AI tool, dubbed Copilot, which is based on OpenAI’s large language models. Microsoft has invested US$13-billion in OpenAI since 2019. Code completion was the first – and remains the most common – use case for AI in programming. But as Dohmke puts it, there are many stages in the software development life cycle, and AI has a role to play in all of them.GitHub has a chat function that allows developers to use AI to help them understand the code they are working with.
While the benefits of having AI assist in explaining complex code design are largely used by enterprises today, Dohkme sees this functionality having a profound impact on how programming is taught, especially when it comes to opening the craft up to those who in the past have found it inaccessible.
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