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ποΈ 24 July 2025
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Ben Lerner was a fan of tech growing up, along side being into math and science. Right out of school, he joined a startup called Data Nitro, which attempted to integrate python into excel. Ever since then, he has been jamming in the tech and startup world. Outside of tech, he married to a computational biologist. He enjoys padel, which is kind of like Pickleball meets Tennis, and of course ping pong. Though, with his full time job as a CEO, he often finds his hobby is going home to write code.
Ben realized that LLMs are really good at understanding code, leaps and bounds better than prior ML models. While he was at Google, he was also digging into how to apply LLMs to coding in general. Applying both of these things, he and his co-founders are seeing where this can be applied to the real world, starting with Snowflake compute.
This is the creation story of Espresso AI.
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0:18.8 | Guys, I've got something cool to tell you about. |
0:21.4 | As an engineering leader, a manager, and an engineer myself, |
0:24.4 | I'm geeking out over a new product I'm just discovering |
0:27.1 | that helps me with each of these points of view. |
0:29.8 | The great team at SEMA, builders of the SEMA intelligence platform, |
0:34.1 | have been working on what they call the product roadmap radar. |
0:38.5 | It's this integrated solution that uses generative AI to observe your code and Jira in order to summarize, synthesize, |
0:44.4 | and make it easier to deliver your roadmap. It not only helps keep your roadmap on track, |
0:49.3 | but it helps reduce the time engineers spend in meetings. Cue all the engineers clapping. |
0:56.0 | The product roadmap radar is extremely easy to set up. |
0:59.0 | This only takes about five minutes, just enable your integrations and let AI do all the mapping for you. |
1:04.0 | My favorite part? I'm glad you asked. |
1:06.0 | The radar doesn't just tell you about your roadmap. |
1:09.0 | It suggests changes you need to make, |
1:11.5 | based on the code that's been written and the stories that have been addressed. No commenting, |
1:16.2 | no special setup, all generative AI. It gives you an outside view of your roadmap based on |
1:21.8 | the code and projects a target completion date based on outstanding work and activity. Again, |
1:29.1 | no comments, no special setup. |
1:33.7 | It even detects shadow work when development is being done but Jura isn't being updated. |
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