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The godfather of Microsoft’s AI push reveals his next big calls

Microsoft’s Copilot revolution started at GitHub, which is run by Thomas Dohmke. He explains what’s coming next – and why it’s not all bad news for humans.

Jun 26, 2025 – 11.33am

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Call it the parable of the snake.

Back in May 2023, Thomas Dohmke, the chief executive of the Microsoft-owned developer platform GitHub, gave a speech in Brazil where he performed what he thought at the time was a neat trick. Live on stage, he used GitHub’s artificial intelligence tool for coders, called Copilot, to create a simple Snake computer game, like we all used to play on our Nokia phones.

James Thomson is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine.