Coder Employees
This person almost was arrested at our Washington DC offsite.
Who is Asher
This is the term for an AI confidently making stuff up.
What is hallucination
Who is Coder's first customer?
Who is Palantir?
Coder v1 was architected to run on this orchestration platform after customer requests from Wells Fargo and the Navy
What is Kubernetes
What decade saw the word “startup” become common business vocabulary?
What is the 1990s
This person had Coder’s first new baby.
Who is Garrett (Baby Marcelo)
GitHub's AI pair programmer, launched in 2021, autocompletes your code and can generate entire functions from comments
What is Copilot
Who is Coder’s largest customer by ARR?
Who is Maryland Procurement Office (Customer One)
This year marked the launch of Coder v2
When is 2022
What startup financed itself by selling cereal during the 2008 election?
Airbnb’s founders funded their early days by selling politically themed cereal boxes — “Obama O’s” and “Cap’n McCain’s.”
This Coder employee had a Dance Dance Revolution cabinet in his apartment
Who is Dean
What was Microsoft’s infamous chatbot experiment called that went wild on Twitter?
What is “Tay”
In 2016, an AI named Tay was shut down after just 16 hours on Twitter — for becoming wildly offensive.
These are which employee’s favorite words?
Optionality
Linearity
Inexorably
Who is James Frey
This Coder v1 capability let developers nest Docker containers
What are CVMs
What popular workplace tool’s name is actually an acronym?
The name “Slack” originally stood for Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge.
This Coder employee fostered 4 dogs for adoption and rescued a Korean Village Dog
Who is Anmol
When you provide an AI with exactly one example before asking it to perform a similar task, you're using this prompting technique
What is one shot
What is Josh Epstein's favorite band?
Who is Dave Matthews Band
This (shipped) feature holds the record as the most requested feature in Coder's GitHub
What are workspace prebuilds
What is the average age of a successful startup founder?
The average age of a successful startup founder is not 25 — it’s 45.
How many countries does Coder have employees in?
What is 18
This AI-generated song featuring fake Drake and The Weeknd went viral before being banned.
What is Heart on My Sleeve
When did Eric start saying 'cheers' & 'mate'
What is March 2025
This engineer achieved container load times of less than a second using LVM queue magic in our consumer product
Who is Jon Ayers
Which payment processing startup was founded by two Irish teenage brothers?
Stripe’s founders were teenagers when they launched the company.