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The Pulse #137: Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”
- The claim that Builder.ai faked AI with 700 engineers was incorrect, as clarified by former engineers at the company.
- Builder.ai built a code generator, Natasha, on top of Claude and other LLMs, rather than using human engineers.
- The startup invested time in building internal versions of existing tools like Slack, Zoom, and JIRA, contributing to its challenges.
- Stock vesting changes were observed at NVIDIA and Anthropic, with NVIDIA's grants becoming front-loaded.
- Builder.ai's Natasha Codegen utilized Python, Ruby on Rails, React, and LLMs like GPT and Claude for code generation.
- The team had a broader vision for Natasha, including a chatbot, knowledge graph, and ML models, all under the Natasha brand.
- Builder.ai faced setbacks with internal conflicts on its main product focus, fraud concerns, and allegations of accounting fraud.
- The downfall of Builder.ai was triggered by accounting fraud allegations, leading to lenders withdrawing funds and eventual collapse.
- Despite the collapse, the engineers at Builder.ai did solid work, but faced repercussions from the viral incorrect claim about faking AI with human devs.
- Industry Pulse: Industry trends include a push to repeal Section 174 accounting changes, Meta addressing AI issues, and potential job cuts at Google.
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