Jay Hack's CodeGen converts backlog tickets directly into pull requests using AI that reads your entire codebase and writes code without a developer. At Ramp, a 60-million-line codebase, it refactored JavaScript to TypeScript and merged PRs autonomously. CodeGen raised $16 million from Thrive Capital.
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Hi folks, my name is Jay and I am the CEO of CodeGen. We get AI to write code. So many of you have probably used ChatGPT to write code. It's absolutely amazing at it and we haven't seen nothing yet. The state of the art, however, for its application in actual enterprise code bases is Copilot. So the human is in the loop sitting in front of a code editor and it's doing autocompletions or maybe chat your code or something along those lines. Our thesis is that it's beneficial to remove the human from the loop and have the AI go off and autonomously solve tasks for you. And you have to somehow delegate tasks to it and also review its output. So very concretely, we do ticket to pull request. We go to large companies like Ramp. We consume all of their code base as well as their backlog of tickets. Then we spin up AI to go off and actually solve those and submit pull requests on their tickets. So your experience as a developer is you say, please refactor my code base from JavaScript to TypeScript. You add a label to it. And then, ding, you get a little ticket. And it says, here's a pull request does that for you. So this is actually working today. This graph that you see here is the pull request merge on Ramps code base. It's a 60-million-line code base. Today we have raised $16 million from Thrive Capital and others. And we are taking this to market. We are ferociously merging pull requests. So that is all. I will be standing right back there in this fun fleece. Thank you so much.
