Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is taking on his old company. His startup, Entire, launched a GitHub alternative this week, replacing traditional pull requests with Trails, a review system that uses AI agents to evaluate code changes while developers oversee the work.A month before that launch, The New Stack asked Dohmke what excites him most about technology’s future and what worries him. He welcomed the ability to turn more of his ideas into working software. His concern was about learning.“What worries me is that people think they no longer need to learn coding,” Entire’s co-founder and CEO told TNS at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose in September. “I think it’s fundamental for every kid out there to not only learn math and biology and geography, but also understand the basics of computer science.”“What worries me is that people think they no longer need to learn coding.”Dohmke was one of several people we posed those questions to at the conference. Their answers reveal enthusiasm for what more people can now build, along with some concerns about understanding, safety, and access to these new tools.For Josh Bentley, SAP’s senior director of community advocacy, broader access to technology means people can build things in hours or days that once took weeks or months. His concern: Whether that speed comes with enough understanding.“People are getting recognized as a builder when they really don’t understand the context of what they’re building,” Bentley said.Darko Mesaroš, distinguished developer advocate at AWS, was similarly excited about more people being able to build software. He also worried about bad code and “AI slop.”“I want people to be able to build more stuff, but I want people to build stuff more intentionally.”“I want people to be able to build more stuff, but I want people to build stuff more intentionally,” Mesaroš said.For Mark Cavage, Docker’s president and chief operating officer, the concern was whether the industry could quickly establish the safeguards and efficiencies needed around AI agents.“The thing that worries me about it, of course, is that actually we as an industry don’t figure out quickly enough how to bring ourselves new efficiencies and trust and safety around it,” Cavage said.Cassidy Williams, GitHub’s senior director of developer advocacy, was excited that people can ask a machine to help turn an idea into something real. She also raised concerns about safety guardrails and the cost of participating.Williams wants people to have accessible tools and “not be priced out from being able to be a part of the future.”The pace of change itself was a source of excitement for Matt Hobbs, head of Cloud, Engineering, Data, and AI at PwC.“Everything that I just built, I could rebuild again and do it better, do it faster, do it safer, do it more ready for enterprise scale,” Hobbs said.Frederic Branczyk, vice president of data engineering at Dash0, described his outlook as cautiously optimistic. He was excited about what AI enables his company to offer customers and how it uses the technology internally, while acknowledging the uncertainty ahead.“None of us really have the answers to all the problems that we’re facing together,” Branczyk said.The conversation is part of The New Stack’s six-video Inside WeAreDevelopers series. The other five videos explore what developers should learn next, what teams are building, and what brings people together:What should every developer get hands-on with right now? — Speakers make the case for experimenting with GPU programming, local AI models, agent frameworks, and sandboxes.What people missed at WeAreDevelopers — From technical debates to unexpected career connections, attendees explain what happens beyond the stage.What tech industry experts enjoy most about developer events — Hallway conversations, old friends, and extended debates offer something a recorded session can’t.Exciting releases for developers — Speakers share updates on agent tools, Git infrastructure, observability, and cloud sandboxes.What tech leaders are focused on right now — Teams discuss agent development, engineering guardrails, infrastructure, and data privacy.The post What worries Entire co-founder Thomas Dohmke about the future of tech? appeared first on The New Stack.