While working as a developer at Quora, Matt Wiethoff was diagnosed with a severe repetitive stress injury to his hand and couldn't code. To overcome this, he and Tommy MacWilliam decided to use AI to create a tool that let them speak the code. Thus, Serenade was born from this obstacle. Serenade is an app that plugs into your existing editors and then allows you to speak your code. At that point, the startup's AI engine takes over and translates what you say into syntactically correct code. While it may seem this would have a pretty narrow market focus, the co-founders see this as a starting point. Helen Loughlin joins the conversation on how the co-founders work to make programming more efficient and accessible to everyone, as well as the potential of expanding Serenade’s use even when not injured.

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Tommy is the co-founder and CEO of Serenade. Previously, he was Quora's Head of Platform, leading teams focused on developer tools and a developer at CS50, Harvard's introductory Computer Science course.

Matt is the co-founder at Serenade, where he works on enabling programmers to write code with voice. Matt entered the voice space when a career-ending injury forced him to look for an alternative way to be productive. Before Serenade, Matt was a machine learning engineer and tech lead at Quora.

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