Zencoder’s ‘Coffee Mode’ is the future of coding: Hit a button and let AI write your unit tests
Published on: 2025-09-21 05:01:00
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Zencoder unveils its next-generation AI coding and unit testing agents today, positioning the San Francisco-based company as a formidable challenger to established players like GitHub Copilot and newcomers like Cursor.
The company, founded by former Wrike CEO Andrew Filev, integrates its AI agents directly into popular development environments including Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs, alongside deep integrations with JIRA, GitHub, GitLab, Sentry, and more than 20 other development tools.
“We started with the thesis that transformers are powerful computing building blocks, but if you put them in a more agentic environment, you can get much more out of them,” said Filev in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. “By agentic, I mean two key things: first, giving the AI feedback so it can improve its work, and second, equipping it with tools. Just like h
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