In 2022, Github caught lightning in a bottle by releasing Github Copilot, their AI coding assistant. Today, over 37,000 businesses–including a third

Building AI-powered software engineering tools: Essential commercial considerations for founders

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2024-06-23 01:00:04

In 2022, Github caught lightning in a bottle by releasing Github Copilot, their AI coding assistant. Today, over 37,000 businesses–including a third of the Fortune 500–use the product, which can reportedly help developers code as much as 55% faster. This, however, is only the tip of the spear in terms of what’s possible when AI is applied to software engineering. Many aspiring founders, themselves engineers, want to get in on the ground floor of this industry revolution by bringing products to market that drive productivity gains across the SDLC.

We spent several months meeting researchers and companies pushing the boundaries of AI-enabled software engineering, from code generation and testing to migrations and beyond. In this two-part series, we will share our guide for building AI-powered developer tools and discuss some areas in particular that we are most excited to see disrupted by this technology.

In this post, a handbook for founder CEOs, we cover the key business and commercial decisions that influence how startups in this space are built and a few opportunities that we think could lead to big companies.