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Thomas Dohmke, GitHub CEO feels like everyone should get rid of passwords. GitHub is open-source software that has been facing cybersecurity issues for years, and GitHub and other companies in the space have been taking steps to bolster security. Dohmke knows, however, that getting to the root of the industrywide problem will take more than just corporate action: It will ultimately require a sea change and cultural shift in how developers work.
Thomas Dohmke replaced Nat Friedman as the GitHub CEO in November 2021. In June 2022, during an interview with Protocol at Toronto's Collision tech conference, he talked about what GitHub is doing to crack down on software vulnerabilities and improve security at one of the most widely used sites in software development.
GitHub Copilot, an "AI pair programmer" coding assistant, has shaken up the software development world with its advanced code-completion capabilities that may lead to entire programs being created with natural language directions.
GitHub Copilot translates natural language to code and supplies developers with a range of suggestions ranging from boilerplate code to complex algorithms. Released in June last year as a free technical preview to 1.2 million developers, the tool is now available to GitHub's entire community of more than 83 million users, according to GitHub.
The code completion tool, available as an extension for JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Code, joins a growing list of competitors. While AI bots like Copilot continue to trend, further advances in AI technology may make code completion less relevant in the future, according to industry experts.
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit focused on free and open-source software (FOSS), said it has stopped using Microsoft's GitHub for project hosting – and is urging other software developers to do the same.
In a blog post in June 2022, Denver Gingerich, SFC FOSS license compliance engineer, and Bradley M. Kuhn, SFC policy fellow, said GitHub has over the past decade come to play a dominant role in FOSS development by building an interface and social features around Git, the widely used open-source version control software.
