Prasanna Sankar, the co-founder and former chief expertise officer of HR software program firm Rippling, has launched an AI startup known as Vorflux.

The corporate has introduced $15 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Peak XV Companions, Powerset and Alliance.

Angel investors Parker Conrad, Immad Akhund and Balaji Srinivasan additionally participated within the spherical.

Vorflux describes itself as a cloud-based platform that gives an “autopilot” for software program engineering.

The startup mentioned its AI brokers can plan improvement work, construct software program, run assessments and open pull requests on devoted machines.

Sankar mentioned present AI coding assistants nonetheless required engineers to oversee a lot of the method, together with reviewing outcomes and correcting their output.

“That’s copilot. You’re nonetheless flying the aircraft. Autopilot is the extent above: set the vacation spot, it flies the entire route,” he mentioned in a LinkedIn publish.

In accordance with Sankar, Vorflux can arrange completely different elements of an utility, together with its frontend, backend, databases and cell companies, earlier than constructing and testing a requested characteristic.

He mentioned the platform might validate its work in a browser and use an AI mannequin from a distinct supplier to evaluate the code earlier than opening a pull request.

The corporate’s claims concerning the platform’s efficiency haven’t been independently assessed.

Vorflux doesn’t develop its personal AI fashions. As an alternative, Sankar mentioned it makes use of fashions from a number of suppliers and assigns them to duties primarily based on their capabilities.

The corporate additionally configures what it calls a “harness”, which applies an engineering staff’s practices and workflows when its AI brokers carry out improvement duties.

The launch follows the closure of 0xPPL, Sankar’s crypto portfolio monitoring and buying and selling platform.

The corporate mentioned in June that it was winding down after the promote it had anticipated did not develop inside the required timeframe.

Sankar co-founded Rippling with Parker Conrad in 2016 and served as its chief expertise officer till leaving the function in 2020.