Why AI Coding Will Never be 100% Autonomous, How Engineering Teams Are Actually Adopting AI, Inside the 996 Discourse, How to do Creative Marketing | Daksh Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of Greptile

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Why AI Coding Will Never be 100% Autonomous, How Engineering Teams Are Actually Adopting AI, Inside the 996 Discourse, How to do Creative Marketing | Daksh Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of Greptile

The Peel with Turner Novak

1 hour 55 minutes 10 seconds

1 week ago

Why AI Coding Will Never be 100% Autonomous, How Engineering Teams Are Actually Adopting AI, Inside the 996 Discourse, How to do Creative Marketing | Daksh Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of Greptile

Daksh Gupta is the Co-founder and CEO of Greptile, the AI code reviewer that understands your entire code base.

Greptile just closed a $25M Series A led by Eric Vishria at Benchmark, and we get into their long and winding journey to build one of the fastest growing AI companies.

Thanks to Suds at SF1 for helping brainstorm topics for the conversation.

Thank you to Numeral and Hanover Park for sponsoring this episode.

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Hanover Park: Modern, AI-native fund admin at https://www.hanoverpark.com/Turner

Timestamps:

(3:15) Evolution of AI coding + code review

(11:23) Coding will never be fully automated

(18:07) Why you need a separate code reviewer

(24:34) How eng teams adopting AI is changing

(27:37) Why LLM costs will come down

(31:54) Pricing AI products

(35:27) Getting your team to adopt AI

(38:17) How Daksh started the 996 discourse

(42:10) Recruiting is a funnel, open roles are a product

(49:19) Making an energy drink for programmers

(51:19) Brainstorming marketing stunts

(57:22) Don’t do hype marketing too early

(59:41) Starting a band, hitting #14 on Spotify

(1:06:35) Evolution of the startup meta

(1:12:39) Starting Greptile in class at Georgia Tech

(1:19:18) Moving to SF, getting into YC

(1:23:44) Pivoting from codebase chat to code review

(1:27:09) Crazy growth and mimetic desire

(1:29:47) Pricing AI software

(1:34:44) How to market developer tools

(1:39:46) Greptile's fundraising journey

(1:42:57) Why YC is worth the 7% dilution

(1:46:39) Treat fundraising like dating

Referenced

Greptile: https://www.greptile.com/

Careers at Greptile: https://www.greptile.com/careers

Monetizing Innovation: https://www.amazon.com/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Design-Product/dp/1119240867

Greptile Work Culture: https://www.greptile.com/blog/work-culture

Episode with Adit @ Reducto: https://youtu.be/h98dLRJFHMM

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