Fascinated by software development since his childhood in Germany, Thomas Dohmke has built a career building tools to accelerate developer happiness. Previously, Thomas was the Chief Executive Officer of GitHub (2021-2025) where he oversaw the rise of the world’s most widely adopted AI developer tools—including the launches of GitHub Copilot, Copilot Workspace, and GitHub Models. Thomas has also been a celebrated TED speaker and holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Glasgow, UK.
tl;dr: I am stepping down as GitHub CEO to build my next adventure. GitHub is thriving and has a bright future ahead. The following is the internal post I sent to GitHub employees (Hubbers) this morning announcing my departure.
Implementing features has never been easier: Just assign a task or issue to Copilot. It runs in the background with GitHub Actions and submits its work as a pull request.
In celebration of MSFT’s 50th anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS Code users. We are also announcing the new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan w/ premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, next edit suggestions for code completions & the Copilot code review agent.
Introducing agent mode for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent.
Come and join 150M developers on GitHub that can now code with Copilot for free in VS Code.
At GitHub Universe, we announced Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are coming to GitHub Copilot—bringing a new level of choice to every developer.
We are enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models–bringing the power of industry leading large and small language models to our more than 100 million users directly on GitHub.
This partnership between GitHub and JFrog enables developers to manage code and binaries more efficiently on two of the most widely used developer platforms in the world.
We’re redefining the developer environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace – where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software all in natural language.
Our most advanced AI offering to date is customized to your organization’s knowledge and codebase, infusing GitHub Copilot throughout the software development lifecycle.
GitHub is announcing general availability of GitHub Copilot Chat and previews of the new GitHub Copilot Enterprise offering, new AI-powered security features, and the GitHub Copilot Partner Program.
Today at Collision Conference we unveiled breaking new research on the economic and productivity impact of generative AI–powered developer tools. The research found that the increase in developer productivity due to AI could boost global GDP by over $1.5 trillion.
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke demonstrated the power of GitHub Copilot X live on stage.
GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions on docs, and adopt OpenAI’s GPT-4 for a more personalized developer experience.
GitHub Copilot is the world’s first at-scale AI developer tool and we’re now offering it to every developer, team, organization, and enterprise.
Below are my prepared remarks delivered at the EU Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels on Feb 3rd.