Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Greptile is building AI that understands entire codebases. Each week, Greptile reviews 5–8 million lines of code for customers and surfaces tens of thousands of bugs that would otherwise slip through human review.
Fresh off a $25M Series A round, they're on a mission to kill the bug.
In an interview with YC Partner Brad Flora, co-founder and CEO Daksh Gupta shares how he and his team discovered that large language models are often better at reading code than writing it, why code review is the most powerful use case for that ability, and how Greptile is helping developers spend less time catching bugs and more time creating software.
Learn more about Greptile: greptile.com
Chapters:
00:00 – Intro & What Greptile Does
00:18 – Why Code Review Matters
01:00 – Humans + AI in the Loop
01:40 – 20,000 Bugs Found Every Week
02:10 – Why Now: LLMs and Code
03:20 – From Code Q&A to Bug Detection
04:20 – What Developers Really Think of AI Tools
05:40 – Advice for Founders
Greptile is building AI that understands entire codebases. Each week, Greptile reviews 5–8 million lines of code for customers and surfaces tens of thousands of bugs that would otherwise slip through human review.
Fresh off a $25M Series A round, they're on a mission to kill the bug.
In an interview with YC Partner Brad Flora, co-founder and CEO Daksh Gupta shares how he and his team discovered that large language models are often better at reading code than writing it, why code review is the most powerful use case for that ability, and how Greptile is helping developers spend less time catching bugs and more time creating software.
Learn more about Greptile: greptile.com
Chapters:
00:00 – Intro & What Greptile Does
00:18 – Why Code Review Matters
01:00 – Humans + AI in the Loop
01:40 – 20,000 Bugs Found Every Week
02:10 – Why Now: LLMs and Code
03:20 – From Code Q&A to Bug Detection
04:20 – What Developers Really Think of AI Tools
05:40 – Advice for Founders
