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Not long ago, Vibe Coding was all over the internet.
We have seen AI-curious people use tools like GitHub Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Claude Code, etc., to grow from Idea → App → Revenue in a flash.
With “Idea to app in seconds” being the new normal, we bring GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke’s views on how you can build effectively with AI.
If you know Thomas, but not his journey, here is a quick timeline of how he ended up as GitHub CEO:
In 2010, he co-founded Codenauts, an agency that built mobile apps for 30+ German enterprises.
When management became a roadblock for handling multiple clients, he co-founded The HockeyApp in 2011 to solve beta app distribution, crash reporting, analytics, etc., for mobile app developers.
By 2014, HockeyApp was a global DevOps solution for mobile devs. In the same year, Microsoft acquired HockeyApp.
At Microsoft, he led the integration of HockeyApp into Visual Studio App and managed various dev tools.
After Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018, he transitioned to GitHub as VP of strategic programs, then CPO, and as CEO since 2021, helping the company build Copilot, Copilot X, and GitHub models.