Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”
The Pragmatic Engineer
JUNE 12, 2025
used 700 engineers in India for coding work it marketed as AI-powered” – MSN “Builder.ai The naive approach: have the devs write code and assume there will never be more than 700 parallel sessions in play: First attempt at a system where 700 devs can pretend to be an AI There is one immediate, major problem: latency.
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