
Their First AI Startup Flopped. Then They Found a Problem Worth Millions | Code Lexica
In this episode of the Cowles Ventures Podcast, Blake sits down with Carter and Tristan, co-founders of Code Lexica, to break down how a code-understanding platform built to help engineers navigate massive codebases pivoted into helping companies track and cut their runaway AI coding spend.We talk about:How Carter started building Code Lexica back in 2022, right after GPT-3.5 came out, and met Tristan at a Spokane AI event a year laterWhy their original product, a chatbot for understanding any codebase, wasn't solving a painful enough problemThe three things they underestimated about the…
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