India’s AI-Boosted Developer Growth to Surpass US by 2027: GitHub CEO

Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, thinks that India’s developer growth will be faster than the US’s by 2027. This is because AI is being adopted quickly and tools like GitHub Copilot are making developers much more productive.

The United States has the biggest group of software developers in the world right now, but Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, says that India will pass it by 2027.

GitHub lets developers write code, store it, organize it, and share it with other developers. In 2018, Microsoft bought the business.

According to Dohmke, the rise in software development was caused by more people using artificial intelligence (AI) more quickly. He also said, “Developers drive GDP growth and technological progress to the tune of trillions of US dollars.”

The CEO was one of the main people who got OpenAI’s GPT models added to GitHub. Because of this, GitHub Copilot was made, which is the first AI developer tool that helps with autocompletion of code. Since the start of the industrial age, Dohmke said that the Copilot has sped up developers by 55%. This is the fastest speed gain.

He made it clear that every company should start using AI. He said, “Companies that embrace this and are early adopters will be on a whole other level of productivity.”

Dohmke used GitHub as an example of how AI cut down on customer service calls by 20% in a year. He pushed other companies to make AI an everyday part of their work.