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HumanLayer
ActiveShip 2-3x faster without AI slopping up your codebase
Fall 2024Founded 20233 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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HumanLayer is an IDE and collaborative cloud platform that helps software engineers solve hard problems in complex codebases. Ship 2-3x faster without AI slopping up your codebase.
Founders · 1
Dexter HorthyFounder
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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