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Mukund Jha: Emergent invented multi-agent paradigms before academic papers were published
“There was a time when we sort of invented the multi-agent system. We invented memory. We invented like, how do we do agent to agent communication? How do you scale up test time compute? A lot of those things which like were sort of coming out, like we would di…”
Mukund Jha: Solving verification enables full automation of software engineering
“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 …”
Adding deep developer power after building simple UX is structurally difficult
“And I think fundamentally it's like, unless you start from, you know, a starting point, which sort of solves all of these problems along the line, the whole software development life cycle, it's actually really hard to come from the other side and solve these …”
Emergent tools enable one engineer to replace a five-person development team
“We also are internally seeing like the role sort of combining. So like a PM, a designer engineer, like a single person is doing, you know, like work of all three together, right? So like we have a PM who's By coding internally things. And recently like we so w…”
Mukund Jha: Foundation AI models will become completely commoditized
“Most of these models are going to get, get really, really commoditized, like, where all of these models will have similar behaviors they'll have, you know, price, price competitiveness between them”
Emergent lowers custom software development costs from $500,000 to $5,000
“And if you look at the price point that, you know, we are bringing down, it would have cost you like 500,000 dollars to build the software. Now you can build it for 5000 dollars completely on your own.”
Jha: 80% of Emergent users have zero programming knowledge
“Today, 80% of users who are on the platform are non-technical users with zero programming knowledge.”
Automating software engineering requires replicating full developer workflows
“Our key insight was that to automate all of software engineering, you will have to build a platform that replicates what best engineering team do, like code reviews, automated testing, debugging, deployment, security, hosting.”
Mukund Jha: Coding is only 20% of shipping software to production
“Our view is that I think the coding aspect is only 20% of the job, right? I think like taking an app to production is like really, really hard.”
Mukund Jha: SaaS companies must pivot to become agent-first to survive
“One is more and more of these SaaS workflows are going to get consumed by an agent, right? Like, so, like you know, unless your SaaS company pivots into like an agent first company you know, I think that's going to be hard to sort of survive.”
Mukund Jha: A company raised $4M for an app built on Emergent
“Recently somebody pinged me that, Hey, like this company has raised like four million dollars on an ad that was built on emergent.”
Mukund Jha: Emergent became #1 globally on SWE-bench within two months
“And we built you know, soda coding agents, which became world number one on SweetBench you know, in two months of time.”
Mukund Jha: Giving foundation models more autonomy improves performance
“And the more autonomy you're able to give to the models, the better they perform.”
Emergent extracts 20% to 30% more performance from models using custom harness
“At least with our harness, we're able to extract 20, 30% more on top of these models.”
Emergent runs deployment with two engineers and memory with one
“For example, our deployment, which almost mirrors what our cell would look like is done by two people. Like our memory, like where you have like multiple startups solving for memory. It's just built by one person.”
Mukund Jha: Every Emergent employee must do weekly customer support
“Like one of the things that we do really religiously is everybody talks to a customer once a week, twice a week. Like everyone in the entire company. Everyone in the company. Right. They talk to a customer, everybody does customer support.”
Mukund Jha: Hundreds of AI agents will collaborate on single tasks by year-end
“I think by end of the year you'll have, you know, agents which are running for hours. And like maybe hundreds of agents collaborating on the single task.”
Mukund Jha: Emergent dropped enterprise sales after 2-3 months due to slow cycles
“And we spent like two, three months trying to you know, make our agents work within the enterprise. We found that it was too slow.”
Emergent Scaled Early Distribution via TikTok and Instagram Influencer Networks
“We built out a large influencer network and that was our, Initial sort of, you know starting point for us. Like we use TikTok, Instagram, and part of this bunch of influencers to really, really spread the word out. And that sort of, you know, kickstarted the w…”