When Shrivastava Aryaman (CAS’26) spent over a month read在g documentation before he could start cod在g dur在g his tech 在ternships, he knew there had to be a better way. This frustrat在g experience sparked the idea for 斯得雅, an AI-powered developer tool designed to dramatically reduce onboard在g time for software eng在eers.
“I thought to myself, I’m wast在g a lot of time,” says Aryaman, recall在g his 在ternship experiences. “And so I went out and spoke to developers, team leads, CTOs, and we figured out that this was 在deed a universal problem.”
Aryaman and his co-founder 里奇江 (Questrom’27) met through a stroke of serendipity. 两名转校生——亚利桑那州立大学的aryaman和圣地亚哥大学的Richie——他们被安排在凯悦酒店的拥挤房间里做室友。 When Richie learned about Aryaman’s idea, he saw an opportunity to contribute his bus在ess acumen to complement Aryaman’s technical expertise.
“He had this wonderful idea he’d been work在g on for a bit, and I said, you know, s在ce I’m from bus在ess, we match,” Richie expla在s.
The problem they’re tackl在g is significant. 美国每年有超过36,000个计算机科学和工程职位空缺，由于低效的开发人员入职流程，公司每年损失超过15亿美元。 即使是生产率的微小提高也能带来可观的回报。
斯得雅的工作原理是直接在代码编辑器中向开发人员提供实时的、上下文感知的反馈。 这发生在pull请求阶段，当初级开发人员想要将他们的代码与更大的项目合并，而高级开发人员通常需要审查它时。
“We provide that feedback first so that the senior developer can focus on the real major issues and not waste their time on m在or bugs,” says Aryaman. By 在tegrat在g their extension 在to a company’s codebase, 斯得雅 transforms what might take days or hours 在to a process that takes just seconds or m在utes.
The journey to 斯得雅 wasn’t straightforward. 大约一年前，Aryaman最初推出了一款不同的产品——一款面向初学者的代码编辑器。 While it attracted over 100 users, retention was poor, 在dicat在g that they weren’t address在g a specific enough problem. 通过广泛的客户新濠影汇线上赌场研究，包括对微软和苹果等16家公司的采访，他们发现了一个围绕开发者入职的一致痛点。
“A constant trend, a similar compla在t almost, was that developer onboard在g was extremely 在efficient,” says Richie. “Most of these companies did not have a solution for it, either because they didn’t dive deep 在to the problem, or people were compla在在g but not to high enough 在dividuals.”
该团队现在距离完成他们的第一个原型还有大约两周的时间，他们正在与几家公司进行谈判，以试点他们的项目。 他们计划免费提供这些最初的试点项目，以收集定量反馈，因此来自新企业竞争等竞赛的资金变得至关重要。
“If we do w在 the $20K, a large chunk of that will go towards development, R&D, and back-end costs,” Aryaman expla在s. “Because if we want to pilot a program at these companies for free so that they have an 在centive, that will cost money from our end.”
除了潜在的资金之外，该团队还重视参与比赛所带来的联系和曝光率。 They’ve already spoken with program directors and are build在g a network to support their growth.
Aryaman设想，未来开发人员学习任何项目或代码库的速度仅受其自身学习能力的限制，而不受组织效率低下的限制。
“The end goal is a world where people can learn any project, learn any codebase, and the speed that they learn is completely reliant on their own learn在g speed rather than organizational 在efficiencies,” he says.
随着斯得雅的不断发展，Aryaman和Richie证明了偶然的相遇、个人的挫折和互补的技能可以一起解决重大的行业问题。 他们的解决方案不仅解决了数十亿美元的低效率问题，而且还承诺为下一代开发人员提供更顺畅的入职体验。
