Announcing Tessl, the AI Native Development Startup

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2024-10-11 07:30:03

Tessl is reimagining software development for the AI era, and helping shape a new software development paradigm we call AI Native Software Development.

The magnitude of the transformation AI will bring to our world is hard to overstate. Seemingly overnight, we’ve all been handed an incredible new tool that can both boost our productivity today and fuel our imagination of tomorrow. Many compare it to past technology revolutions ranging from the internet to personal computing to electricity. Regardless of where you rank it in comparison, most would agree it’s going to be truly transformative.

In the world of software development, we’re already seeing its impact. Powerful coding assistants that auto-complete as we code are being adopted rapidly and widely, with users touting huge productivity boosts. Other tools offer great promise as they automate tasks throughout the development process, such as writing tests, implementing backlog tickets, generating documentation or performing large-scale migrations. We’re even seeing the next layer of tools being built for AI-assisted developers, like ensuring generated code is secure or tackling threats with the AI functionality itself.

These solutions are amazing, and I believe every organization should invest in trying them out. However, they all anchor in the present - focusing on how we build software today. They look at the way individuals work and software is developed using today’s methodologies, and try to automate different steps to make those flows more efficient. In other words, they use AI to bolt-on automation on top of existing workflows and practices that have been built for an era without the benefit of AI assistance. We call the use of these tools AI-Assisted development - it’s the same dev workflow, but enhanced with AI.