GitHub COO Urges Developers to Look Beyond Coding

Says AI technology is changing so fast that it's difficult to predict three months in advance

- AVIK DAS

Software developers of the future need to be armed with skills such as problem-solving, clear communication, and a growth mindset at a time when a lot of coding is getting automated with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), said Kyle Daigle, chief operating officer (COO) of GitHub.

Developers are expected to not only just learn coding but also oversee what the AI agents are doing—popularly known as human-in-the-loop—to ensure that the codes are correct, without biases, and are reliable.

"Learning how to code provides me with the ability to write codes, and it's also teaching me many more important things. That is how the system works," Daigle said in an exclusive interaction with Business Standard in his maiden trip to India. "Tools will make me more powerful as a developer. For open source, it allows us to solve problems that were financially impossible before," he added.