GitHub CEO: Why Now Is the BEST Time to Be a Developer | Thomas Dohmke

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Released

June 27, 2025

Duration

21m

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Silicon Valley Girl

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📌 Unlock ChatGPT’s full potential in just 1 week with this FREE Prompt Engineering guide packed with advanced techniques for better content, smarter decisions, and powerful results: https://clickhubspot.com/d24512 In this episode, Marina Mogilko interviews Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub — the world’s largest platform for developers. He shares why now is the most exciting time to be a developer, how AI is reshaping developers work, how “vibe coding” changes everything, and what skills actually matter in the AI-powered future of work. Follow Thomas in LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtom/ 00:00 – Teaser – future of coding 00:53 – Vibe coding – why it changes everything 01:53 – How complex can sites get 03:35 – No developers in 2 years? 04:48 – Prompt better – make AI your co-founder 06:08 – The future of developers 07:30 – The smartest companies will be hiring more developers, not less 08:25 – 10x teams – but who's buying? 09:18 – 90% of code by AI agents? 09:48 – Big tech halts hiring – what's next? 11:02 – Learning to code? why teens have the edge 12:28 – Best platform to start vibe coding 14:22 – AI vs you – who has better ideas? 15:03 – AGI by 2030? 15:48 – Why AI needs to be more creative 17:10 – Skills every kid should learn 18:05 – Best time to be a developer 19:10 – Scared of AI taking jobs? listen to this 20:27 – Top 3 AI tools you should try Links: 📩 Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🔗 My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/ 📌 My Companies & Products: https://Marinamogilko.co 📹 Video brainstorming, research, and project planning - all in one place - https://partner.spotterstudio.com/ideas-with-marina 💻 Resources that helps my team and me grow the business:

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Marina Mogilko

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• Thomas Dohmke

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, featuring Marina Mogilko and Thomas Dohmke, GitHub CEO: Why Now Is the BEST Time to Be a Developer | Thomas Dohmke explores gitHub CEO explains vibe coding, AI agents, and developer future Dohmke defines “vibe coding” as working in an IDE with AI agents (Copilot/Cursor-style) where you mostly direct the agent and run commands rather than constantly reading code.

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