GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom

It's interesting to see a CEO express thoughts on AI and coding go in a slightly different direction.

Usually the CEO or investor says 30% (or some other made up number) of all code is written by AI and the number will only increase, implying that developers will soon be obsolete.

It's implied that 30% of all code submitted and shipped to production is from AI agents with zero human interaction. But of course this is not the case, it's the same developers as before using tools to more rapidly write code.

And writing code is only one part of a developer's job in building software.

He’s probably more right than not. But he also has a vested interest in this (just like the other CEOs who say the opposite), being in the business of human-mediated code.

Presumably you're aware that the full name of Microsoft's Copilot AI code authoring tool is "GitHub Copilot", that GitHub developed it, and that he runs GitHub.