With AI, anyone can be a coder now | Thomas Dohmke

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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What if you could code just by talking out loud? GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke shows how, thanks to AI, the barrier to entry to coding is rapidly disappearing — and creating software is becoming as simple (and joyful) as building LEGO. In a mind-blowing live demo, he introduces Copilot Workspace: an AI assistant that helps you create code when you speak to it, in any language.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily,
0:10.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:14.7	I'm your host Elise Hugh. Remember all those learn to code programs of the early tens and
0:19.6	how leaders were encouraging American students to learn programming since software development was going to be so central to the workforce?
0:27.0	Well, AI has changed a lot of that.
0:32.0	In his talk from TED 2024,
0:34.6	CEO of GitHub, Thomas Domke
0:37.2	shows off a new fusion between human and machine
0:41.4	that allows software to be written without grasping complex coding at all.
0:47.0	And on the topic of AI, stick around afterwards for a brief Q&A with Blaville Sidu, the host of our new podcast, the Ted AI Show.
0:56.0	That's all coming up after a short break.
1:00.0	And now our TED Talk of the Day.
1:04.0	You know, I'm one of these adults that actually still loves playing with LEGO.
1:09.0	I love them way back in the 80s in Berlin when I grew up and I still love them and these days I build
1:16.1	LEGO with my kids on Saturday afternoons and the reason that my love for LEGO has remained
1:21.8	evergreen is quite simply that LEGO is a system for realizing creativity
1:26.8	with almost no barrier to entry. Now I'm not only a LEGO dad, I'm also the CEO of GitHub.
1:33.6	And if you don't know GitHub, you can think of it as the home of coding.
1:37.8	It's where all the software developers,
1:40.4	the chief nerds of our society collaborate together.
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