Mechanize, Inc.

We build environments and evals for frontier coding agents. In these environments, models carry out software engineering work such as building a feature, deploying an application, or debugging an issue in an unfamiliar codebase. A grader scores the model’s performance, and these scores serve as signals during reinforcement learning and evaluations.

Frontier models are already surprisingly good at writing code. Our engineers find where they still break down and build environments that reveal those limits. Our current focus is software engineering, but our long-term goal is the full automation of valuable work across the economy.

Careers

We’re hiring software engineers to design and build these environments. Apply here.

Learn how our interview process works, or read about what working here is like.

Technical blogs

• Introducing GBA Eval

Essays

These essays explain our vision and how we think about AI, work, and the economy:

• How to fully automate software engineering
• The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL
• Sweatshop data is over
• Medical AI isn’t the bottleneck to medical progress
• Cheap RL tasks will waste compute
• The future of AI is already written
• Life after work
• Unfalsifiable stories of doom

Press releases

Our press announcements are collected on the press releases page.

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Mechanize is backed by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Patrick Collison, Adam D’Angelo, Marco Mascorro, Dwarkesh Patel, Sholto Douglas, Devendra Chaplot, Alex Atallah, and Marcus Abramovitch.

For inquiries, you can reach us at our contact page.