Jay Hack

Codegen - AI developer that analyzes + improves codebase 24/7 in Slack

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Our AI assistant helps engineering teams analyze, modify, and improve codebases through natural language directly in Slack. Ship faster with fewer errors and create production-ready PRs in minutes.

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Jay Hack
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Hey all! Jay here from Codegen. We're incredibly excited to launch our generalist SWE agent today for general availability! 🎉 2 years ago, we set out to build an agentic developer. With Claude 3.7, it's now possible like never before - and it's absolutely killer. It's essentially Claude Code tightly integrated with Github, Slack, Linear and more - the modern developer toolkit. This is not a contrived demo. We're constantly merging PRs in enterprise repos. It's often faster to kick off Codegen in a Slack thread than to open VSCode, push up a branch, etc. We've found it *especially* useful in scenarios where multiple humans are collaborating real-time. Fastest way to push collaborative dev initiatives forward. I've been at the bleeding edge of code generation for years now and it's incredible to me how far we've come. Claude 3.7 is shockingly resilient, resourceful, and will go for *hundreds* of iterations even in the face of ambiguity, broken tools, etc. It just finds a way. Accelerate your development today! Install at https://codegen.sh/install And as always, we love feedback from the community. I'm here to answer questions and chat ideas with anyone who's curious. Thanks!
Kay Kwak
Launching soon!

Oh my gosh, I can't believe this is possible in Slack. I understand modifying the code on Github, but do I have to check manually that it actually works without errors?

Jay Hack

@kay_arkain great point - if you are doing something that requires extensive manual debugging, then I would recommend a more in-the-loop development process, for example Windsurf/Cursor/Cody. If, however, the bugs are something that would be caught by your tests/linter/CI, then Codegen is capable of reacting to your tests!a No need to pull down the changes.


Where Codegen really shines through is in scenarios like small bug fixes, replicating boilerplate, asking questions about your code, etc., and you want the result fast

Faizan Jan

Congratulations on the launch. Just watched the demo video. Codegen is indeed like having a software engineer who never sleeps!

How does Codegen handle large monolithic repositories compared to microservices architectures? Are there specific optimizations to ensure efficient performance across diverse codebase structures?

Jay Hack

@faizanjan_ Thanks! We've implemented many optimizations to make it work well with large repositories, including optimized search functionality and more. That being said, in our experience the current generation of foundation models (Claude 3.7 etc.) are actually incredibly skilled at navigating large repositories even given a limited toolset. Try it yourself and I think you'll find it capable of doing really valuable work even in large repos or scenarios with hundreds of microservices!

Samuel Briskar

This AI tool is a game-changer for developers! It helps ship code faster and with fewer errors. đź‘Ť

Jay Hack

@samuel_briskar 🚀

Jonas Urbonas

This is such a cool way to make development faster and more collaborative—being able to push code from Slack instead of opening multiple tools will definitely save time. How does Codegen handle scenarios where team members are working on different parts of the same project?

Jay Hack

@jonurbonas thanks! Team members working on different parts of the same project should have no issues. Each codegen agent gets it's own development environment and submits a unique PR - you and I can each be chatting up an agent in separate slack threads and produce outputs independently. You can resolve merge conflicts etc. with your regular version control flow, e.g. via Github. Hope that answers your question!

Winrey Ma

The Slack integration is really convenient.

Jay Hack

@winrey Thanks! We are also super bullish on Linear. It's easy to spin up hundreds of agents that produce real, valuable output, but managing/triaging that output can be a pain. Our linear integration makes managing these agents much easier!

Samuel Briskar

Codagen's AI developer analyzing and improving codebase 24/7 is a game-changer. Great job! đź‘Ť

Maklyen May

A friend of mine was looking for something to speed up their coding workflow without compromising quality. This might be exactly what they need.

Savvas Konsta

Congrats on launching Codegen! Love the idea of bringing continuous code improvement right into Slack!

Kusuma
Codegen is a fantastic AI-powered tool for developers and engineering teams! The ability to analyze, modify, and improve codebases directly within Slack makes collaboration seamless and efficient. By automating code reviews and generating production-ready pull requests in minutes, it helps teams ship faster with fewer errors. This is a game-changer for anyone looking to streamline their development workflow and enhance code quality
Ava Sinclair

Reducing my errors while shipping faster? This changes everything for my team.