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Introducing: PlayerZero The world's first Engineering World Model that puts debugging, fixing, and testing your code on autopilot. We've raised $20M from Foundation Capital, Matei Zaharia (Databricks), Peter Bailis (Workday), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Dylan Field (Figma), Drew Houston (Dropbox), and more PlayerZero frees up 30% of your engineering bandwidth...

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Animesh Koratana7 months ago

We're also giving away a curated collection of 200+ Claude Code Skills our team uses daily — the workflows that made us faster engineers while building PlayerZero. Repost and comment "100X" to get access.

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Animesh Koratana7 months ago

It's state of the art. Across 26,400 real PRs, PlayerZero predicted bugs before code shipped to production 64% of the time. For comparison: → Claude Code: 11% → Cursor BugBot: 16% Its not an incremental improvement, its a new paradigm.

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Animesh Koratana7 months ago

For the last 7 years, I've been working on one question: can a machine truly understand software? Not just read or write it. But understand it like your best senior architect. Through my research at Stanford AI from '18–'21, deployment at OpenAI on GPT-2, and now through applied AI at PlayerZero. (the answer is yes)

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Animesh Koratana7 months ago

Book a demo today:

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litquidity7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Software engineers looking at AI do their job better than them

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Abhishek Agarwal7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston I was discussing with our CTO why nobody has built this yet. We still take an embarrassingly long time to do RCAs. Congrats on the launch!

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Animesh Koratana7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Thanks Abhishek. About time, someone built it!

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Avid7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston this is so awesome. finally shipping fast and debugging faster will be the reality

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Animesh Koratana7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Love this!

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Avid7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston I appreciate it

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Andrew Yeung7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston insane offer "If we can't increase your engineering bandwidth by at least 20% within one week, we'll donate $10,000 to an open-source project of your choice."

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Anish Moonka7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston been testing this for a few days and it genuinely caught stuff I would've shipped blind

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Damian Player7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston yuuuuuge! 30% of time back for engs is wild..

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amrit7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston congrats on launch, v hard problem to solve

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SumitM7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston This is interesting ... Debugging faster is great !! If it actually works at scale, this can save a lot of engineering time !!

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Santiago7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Congrats on the launch. Congrats on the rise!

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Rohan Paul7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston debugging is 70% of the bottleneck. If this works well, the value will be huge. Going to try it out now. Congrats on the launch.

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AshutoshShrivastava7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston The gap has always been there. Most AI tools help you write code faster, but nothing serious handles what happens after it ships. Good to see that changing.

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Chubby♨️7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston very cool!

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OneManSaas7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston How does PlayerZero handle debugging distributed systems where the issue spans multiple services? Traditional debugging tools fall apart when you're trying to trace problems across microservices - curious if your world model can actually connect those dots.

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Nandkishor7 months ago

Congratulations @akoratana on the launch. This is exactly what we’ve been looking for. As a DevOps engineer, it allows me to focus more on system design, reliability, and building scalable infrastructure rather than spending time debugging calls at 2 AM. It’s also going to help significantly in resolving issues faster when they occur next time.

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Animesh Koratana7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Thanks! That's the future we see for every builder in the world :)

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Connor Heyward-Fox7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston congrats on the launch - looks like a great solution! question: how does the context graph handle conflicting signals? when slack says one thing but CI history says another, does it surface both or pick a winner?

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Animesh Koratana7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Code is the source of truth, other sources can be context. Maybe your docs say it should operate one way, but if the code doesn't actually match the docs, you want your production engineer to go off of what's actually in prod.

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Connor Heyward-Fox7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston that makes sense. code as source of truth, everything else as context that might explain why the code is the way it is. clean hierarchy.

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AndreWGMI7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston 90% faster resolution is crazy, but does it actually learn org-specific context or is that just marketing speak?

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Animesh Koratana7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Yup. Org-specific, learns your own context from your own codebase

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vas7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Congrats on the launch!

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Animesh Koratana7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Thanks Vas!

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Animesh Koratana7 months ago

@pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston UPDATE: Too many of y’all wanted this and X won't let us DM fast enough! Here's the link, it's available for everyone now: 200+ Claude Code Skills for Developers ⬆️

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PlayerZero7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston So excited to launch this into the world

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Tech with Mak7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston This is huge! You only realize how big this problem is once things start breaking in prod 😅

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Alvaro Cintas7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Big congrats on the launch!

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Ram7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Thanks @akoratana and playerzero team. You solved one of the biggest pain point.

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Shruti7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Reducing resolution time by 90% is no small feat. Congrats on the raise.

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Alexey Grigorev7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston 100x Congratulations on the launch!

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Animesh Koratana7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Thanks Alexey.

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Nandkishor7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston

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Abraham Wolke7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Hey, if you're reading this we built a public code graph API that anyone can build things like this on top of -> DM me and I'll set u up

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Daniel Ch7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Looks like a gamechanger!!

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AI Panda7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Feels like a real shift toward actually understanding production systems.

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Om7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston This is huge 🔥 Debugging now finally getting the upgrade it deserves. Excited to see this in action ..

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Masters Mind7 months ago

@powerbeastt @matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston PlayerZero isn’t just AI coding — it’s AI that understands your whole production system. Connects tickets, PRs, Slack threads, and CI/CD into one context graph. Cuts debugging time, predicts edge cases, and boosts engineering bandwidth. 🚀

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pika capital7 months ago

@litcapital @matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Let me know if you are still taking any Angel checks 👀👀👀

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David Ch7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston wow.. no way this doesn't go into the history books keeping an eye on this, congrats guys!

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@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Debugging is the biggest issue in the agentic world. Game changer. Congrats to you & your teams for the launch.

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Rez Karim7 months ago

@matei_zaharia @pbailis @rauchg @zoink @drewhouston Congrats Animesh. PlayerZero just automated the one thing vibe coded apps especially need, testing and debugging all the AI generated code.

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