Mukund Jha: Solving verification enables full automation of software engineering
Mukund Jha · AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator · Mar 16, 2026 · at 2:27
Mukund Jha, co-founder of AI platform Emergent, explains the core technical insight that led the company to pivot from automated testing to general AI coding agents.
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“If you can solve for verification, which is essentially, you know, you can solve the testing part you can actually automate all the software engineering. That was sort of our key insight that like, you know, verification is the loop, which sort of keeps agent running for a longer, longer period of time.”
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