#849 Revolutionizing AI as a Physicist with Guy Gur-Ari, Co-Founder at Augment

Today, we're talking to Guy Gur-Ari, Co-Founder at Augment. We discuss Guy’s journey from physicist to founder, why AI is becoming both creepier and more useful than ever, and why the intelligence AI exhibits is unlike anything humanity has ever encountered.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

To learn more about Augment, check out their website here.

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About Guy Gur-Ari

Guy Gur-Ari is the co-founder of Augment, a company specializing in AI-powered coding assistance for large-scale software development. With a background in theoretical physics, including research on black holes, Guy transitioned to AI and machine learning, bringing a unique perspective to the tech industry. He previously led a team at Google focused on understanding and improving machine learning models, contributing to significant projects like PaLM. Guy's work bridges the gap between complex scientific concepts and practical AI applications in software engineering.

About Augment

Augment puts your team’s collective knowledge—codebase, documentation, and dependencies—at your fingertips via chat, code completions, and suggested edits.

Get up to speed, stay in the flow and get more done. Lightning fast and highly secure, Augment works in your favorite IDEs and Slack.

We proudly augment developers at Webflow, Kong, Pigment, and more.

We are alumni of great AI and cloud companies, including Google, Meta, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and Databricks.

If, like us, you believe in augmenting and not replacing software developers, join us on our mission to improve software development at scale using AI.