Dexter Horthy

CEO & Co-Founder, HumanLayer

Dexter Horthy is the founder of HumanLayer, a company building collaborative infrastructure for AI-assisted software development. Before founding HumanLayer, he worked across engineering, product, and go-to-market at Replicated.

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Agentic Engineering

How teams build software when AI coding agents write the code: directing agents, what code review and validation become when code is nearly free, durable systems with disposable code, orchestrating many agents, keeping them safe inside an organization, and how roles change. Drawn from practitioners at HumanLayer, Sentry, Honeycomb, Google DeepMind, and others.

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Aug 5, 2026

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High Leverage Ep. #12, The Limits of Lights-Out Coding with Dexter Horthy

On episode 12 of High Leverage, Joe Ruscio sits down with Dexter Horthy of HumanLayer. They explore the promise and limitations of autonomous coding, including why today’s models excel at bounded programming tasks but struggle to account for the long-term consequences of architectural decisions. The conversation covers dark software factories, code review bottlenecks, program design, technical debt, and the continuing importance of experienced engineers.

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