Crowdbotics is another NEA portfolio company using generative AI to pursue a lofty goal. Simply put, the company intends to
leverage AI to reinvent the entire software development process. While scores of low code and no code competitors were creating
tools so non-techies could create software for simple applications, founder Anand Kulkarni believed that the foundational models
that were just beginning to be discussed in academic journals in 2016 would one day let application development teams accomplish
far more using natural-language commands.
“Any software engineer will tell you that writing the code is the easy part,” says Kulkarni. Far more difﬁcult is ﬁguring out what the
software should do, and how to express that in terms a computer can understand – not to mention despised tasks such as writing
documentation and ensuring that the resulting code is secure. Plus, Crowdbotics has developed processes so companies can save all
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