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Dohmke expects AI to assist developers while maintaining human review before production.
- 1ReviewDohmke says review takes substantial time.
- 2Human oversightHe retains a role for human review.
- 3AutomationHe proposes assistance with warnings and vulnerabilities.
Takeaways
- Developers spend time reviewing code.
- Human review remains important in his view.
- AI may help with warnings and security backlogs.
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How developers spend time
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says developers often spend only part of their day writing code and also devote substantial time to reviewing colleagues’ work.
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says developers often spend only part of their day writing code and also devote substantial time to reviewing colleagues’ work.
He argues that human review before production remains important for security and trust, even as AI assists the review process.
Review and security tools
Dohmke expects code-review agents to help distributed teams and wants scanning tools to assist with fixing vulnerabilities as well as finding them.
Dohmke expects code-review agents to help distributed teams and wants scanning tools to assist with fixing vulnerabilities as well as finding them.
He also cites routine lint and formatting warnings as work that AI could potentially address.
Dohmke hopes automation can reduce security backlogs in open-source and commercial projects, with platform tools supporting cooperation between agents and people. These are his goals, not guaranteed outcomes.
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