Barrchives
Barr Yaron
Founders are trying to figure out how to build their companies (and cultures) around AI. But the specifics — like how much (if at all) to invest in research, how to build the right team, and how to evaluate whether their systems work as intended—are still up in the air. Join Barrchives as we speak with the founder-CEOs who are pushing the boundaries of AI, and share their decisions and their stories. Hosted by Barr Yaron, Partner at Amplify Partners.
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Oct 29, 2024 • 45min
The Context Problem That Built a $2.6B Developer Platform, with Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph
Quinn Slack co-founded Sourcegraph to address the challenges his team faced in their own projects. After simplifying their internal process for navigating complex codebases, they realized that while smaller companies might not see this as a pressing issue, many enterprises did.
Sourcegraph is the leading code intelligence platform that revolutionizes how developers understand, fix, and automate their code. By leveraging AI through Cody, their AI coding assistant, Sourcegraph enables developers to easily navigate large codebases, locate relevant code snippets, and gain historical context—all while streamlining bug fixes, code refactoring, and performance improvements in a single interface.
Don’t miss this episode of Barrchives where Quinn discusses the evolution of Sourcegraph, the critical role of context in coding, and how AI is set to transform the role of the developer.
Oct 23, 2024 • 55min
How Vercel is advancing the Future of Frontend with AI, with Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch is changing the way frontend developers work.Guillermo Rauch started his first online business at just 11 years old in Argentina. A couple successful exits later, he’s now founder and CEO of Vercel. Vercel provides tools and cloud infrastructure for developers to build and scale a more personalized web.This episode of Barrchives gets into how and why Vercel’s AI products – v0 and AI SDK – were built, how AI will enable a more personalized web, and why AI will dramatically shift the future of frontend cloud.
Oct 15, 2024 • 56min
How Replit is Using AI to Help Develop the Next Billion Coders, with Amjad Masad & Michele Catasta
Amjad Masad and Michele Catasta are lifelong developers on a mission to change how people learn to code.Amjad is the Founder & CEO of Replit. His journey started in Jordan, where he taught himself to code despite barely having internet access. That drive eventually led to Replit, a platform now used by millions to make it easier for developers to jump right into coding. Michele, President of Replit, previously led AI research at Google and helps develop tools like Replit Agent that handle the boring parts of coding, so developers can be put their energy into being creative with their skills to solve real problems.They joined me on the very first episode of Barrchives to share their vision for the future of programming, the role AI plays in shaping it, and the tough decisions that have defined Replit’s strategy.
