HumanLayer

Ship 2-3x faster without AI slopping up your codebase

Y CombinatorFall 2024ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignDeveloper ToolsAI

What they do

Problem

Software engineers struggle to solve hard problems and ship changes quickly in complex codebases without introducing low-quality AI-generated code.

Solution

An IDE and collaborative cloud platform that helps engineers work through complex codebases and accelerate shipping while keeping code quality high.

Who it's for

Software engineers and development teams working in complex codebases.

Founders

Dexter Horthy

Founder

Coined the term Context Engineering in April 2025, ranting about coding agents ever since. Started coding in high school at NASA JPL. Spent 7 years as Engineer, SE, PM, Exec at Replicated, a series C dev tools startup. I worked on container orchestrators, helped teams like Hashicorp, DataStax, and H2O.ai deliver and ship their on-prem k8s products.

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