HumanLayer
ActiveShip 2-3x faster without AI slopping up your codebase
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 · 1
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.
Launch
Approval queues, escalations, and human oversight for every automated process.
HumanLayer provides tools to route feedback, input, and approvals from humans for software workflows and AI agents. It supports Python and TypeScript apps, and channels like Slack, SMS, and email to manage manual approvals, oversight, and transitions between human and autonomous AI actions.
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