Why AI Will Never Replace Engineers, Inside the 996 Discourse, and Creative Marketing | Daksh Gupta, 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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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: greptile.com
Careers at Greptile: greptile.com/careers
Monetizing Innovation: amazon.com/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Des…
Greptile Work Culture: greptile.com/blog/work-culture
Episode with Adit @ Reducto: youtu.be/h98dLRJFHMM

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