HumanLayer

About

HumanLayer is an IDE and collaborative cloud platform that helps software engineers solve hard problems in complex codebases. Ship 2-3x faster without AI slopping up your codebase.

Founders

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  Dexter Horthy· Founder

  Coined the term Context Engineering in April 2025, ranting about coding agents ever since. Started coding in high school at NASA JPL. Spent 7 years as Engineer, SE, PM, Exec at Replicated, a series C dev tools startup. I worked on container orchestrators, helped teams like Hashicorp, DataStax, and H2O.ai deliver and ship their on-prem k8s products.

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• HumanLayer - Human-in-the-loop for AI Agents and beyond ↗▲ 47Oct 29, 2024

  Approval queues, escalations, and human oversight for every automated process.

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