We are leveraging Microsoft’s experience on responsible, ethical & secure AI: GitHub CEO

AI-powered developer platform GitHub sees immense potential in India, which is poised to surpass the US in developer population by 2027. CEO Thomas Dohmke spoke to Geetika Srivastava on the sidelines of the annual GitHub Universe conference about the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in coding, the company’s Copilot programme, and GitHub’s journey since it was acquired by Microsoft. Edited excerpts:

Will the emergence of generative AI ever replace computer programmers?

Absolutely not, it can never replace developers. On the one hand, the technology is not sentient, it is not creative. It is not able to make decisions for you and it cannot decide what features one should work on and how to build them.