Why AI Coding Will Never be 100% Autonomous, How Engineering Teams Are Actually Adopting AI, Inside the 996 Discourse, How to do Creative Marketing | Daksh Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of Greptile
The Peel with Turner Novak
Turner Novak
4.6 • 11 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Daksh Gupta is the Co-founder and CEO of Greptile, the AI code reviewer that understands your entire code base.
Greptile just closed a $25M Series A led by Eric Vishria at Benchmark, and we get into their long and winding journey to build one of the fastest growing AI companies.
Thanks to Suds at SF1 for helping brainstorm topics for the conversation.
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Timestamps:
(3:15) Evolution of AI coding + code review
(11:23) Coding will never be fully automated
(18:07) Why you need a separate code reviewer
(24:34) How eng teams adopting AI is changing
(27:37) Why LLM costs will come down
(31:54) Pricing AI products
(35:27) Getting your team to adopt AI
(38:17) How Daksh started the 996 discourse
(42:10) Recruiting is a funnel, open roles are a product
(49:19) Making an energy drink for programmers
(51:19) Brainstorming marketing stunts
(57:22) Don’t do hype marketing too early
(59:41) Starting a band, hitting #14 on Spotify
(1:06:35) Evolution of the startup meta
(1:12:39) Starting Greptile in class at Georgia Tech
(1:19:18) Moving to SF, getting into YC
(1:23:44) Pivoting from codebase chat to code review
(1:27:09) Crazy growth and mimetic desire
(1:29:47) Pricing AI software
(1:34:44) How to market developer tools
(1:39:46) Greptile's fundraising journey
(1:42:57) Why YC is worth the 7% dilution
(1:46:39) Treat fundraising like dating
Referenced
Greptile: https://www.greptile.com/
Careers at Greptile: https://www.greptile.com/careers
Monetizing Innovation: https://www.amazon.com/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Design-Product/dp/1119240867
Greptile Work Culture: https://www.greptile.com/blog/work-culture
Episode with Adit @ Reducto: https://youtu.be/h98dLRJFHMM
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dakshg/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Peel, where we explore the world's greatest startup stories. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm your host, Turner Novak, founder of Banana Capital. |
| 0:09.6 | Before we jump in, a quick thank you to our sponsors who make the show possible, Numeril |
| 0:13.5 | in Hanover Park. |
| 0:14.5 | Today's guest is Dux Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Gruptile, the AI Code Reviewer that helps |
| 0:19.9 | teams ship faster. |
| 0:21.8 | If you're very online, you may recognize Dux is the founder who kick-started the recent |
| 0:26.5 | discourse around 996 in San Francisco, what people call working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. 6 days |
| 0:32.0 | per week. He has a surprising view on it that we talk about, plus we get into the future |
| 0:37.1 | of AI coding and how |
| 0:38.3 | engineering teams are actually adopting AI products today. |
| 0:41.7 | We also get into Gretile's crazy journey starting as a school project at Georgia Tech, the ridiculous |
| 0:46.2 | marketing stunts that actually worked, how they became one of the fastest growing AI startups |
| 0:50.4 | on the planet and everything he learned along the way. |
| 0:53.5 | A quick thank you to my friend |
| 0:54.6 | SUD's early Greptile investor for helping Rangoram topics for Dutch. A quick reminder, I publish |
| 0:59.7 | the episodes of the Peel every week. Check out the back catalog of over 100 episodes exploring |
| 1:04.3 | the world's greatest startup stories just like this one. Now, a quick word from Numeril in |
| 1:09.2 | Hanover Park. This episode is brought to you by Numeril. |
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