The One-Person, Billion-Dollar Startup? — With Thomas Dohmke

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Thomas Dohmke is the CEO of Github. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the state of AI-assisted coding, and whether the rest of the economy can see benefits similar to software engineers using coding 'copilots.' We also discuss how AI assistance can help individual developers build whatever's on their mind, and whether we'll see $1 billion dollar startups built by just one person. Tune in the for the second half where we discuss the next set of AI models, how engineering jobs change when AI produces most of the code, and whether AI will eventually improve itself. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	The CEO of GitHub takes us to the cutting edge of AI, where the AI is actually writing code for
0:06.3	engineers. And he tells us how this might change the economy. And importantly, how its success
0:12.3	might translate to the rest of the AI field. All that and more is coming up right after this.
0:17.9	Hi, I'm Jonathan Fields. Tune in to my podcast for conversations about the sweet spot between work, meaning, and joy.
0:25.7	And also listen to other people's questions about how to get the most out of that thing we call work.
0:31.1	Check out SPART wherever you enjoy podcasts.
0:35.8	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:42.0	We're joined today by the CEO of GitHub, Thomas Donka, who is here to talk to us about the field that is probably being influenced and impacted by generative AI the most.
0:51.9	And we're probably going to learn a lot about what this era in the
0:56.0	coding world is going to pretend for the rest of the technology industry and industry at large
1:02.0	as generative AI gets smarter and spreads across more disciplines. We're also going to talk about
1:06.3	how it's going to change our economy by making it easier to build tech products.
1:13.5	I'm so excited to have him here. Thomas, welcome.
1:15.8	Hey, thank you so much for having me.
1:16.8	Thanks for being here.
1:17.3	All right.
1:19.9	First of all, just a bit of news that we got this week.
1:25.7	Elon Musk is boasting about the fact that they now have the most powerful XAI,
1:29.5	now has the most powerful AI training cluster in the world.
1:36.6	He says they've got 100,000 liquid cooled H100s, which are Nvidia chips, on a single RDMA fabric.
1:45.0	And basically, he says that XAI is going to be on par with the rest of the AI field or better by the end of this year.
1:49.9	A lot of people that I speak with in the AI industry sort of have this perspective of,
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