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6 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2025
Rajadurai says XBOW is two and a half years old and announced that it became number one on HackerOne in July of the previous year.
“XBOW's two and a half years old. We did our big, like, you know, announcement, Hacker One, where we became number one back in July last year”
Undated
Niro Rajadurai says that XBOW's founder, Hugo Demoor, was the person who invented GitHub Copilot.
“the founder of XBOW, Hugo Demoor was actually the person that invented GitHub Copilot.”
Undated
Rajadurai describes a customer case where a web application firewall rule blocked a URL pattern, but XBOW bypassed it by encoding a letter as an ASCII code with a percent sign.
“But in programming, you can represent letters as they actually are, or you can represent them as an ASCII code by putting a percent there.”
Undated
Rajadurai says XBOW found that pairing different AI models in one reasoning process gives better results than a single model, an approach it calls alloy models.
“pairing different models together as part of a reasoning process actually results in higher quality and better results than just leveraging a single model.”
Undated
Rajadurai says XBOW does not train its own models but uses existing ones with coaching and guidance provided in the context window.
“we actually don't try to to train the model, we we leverage the models as they are”
Undated
Rajadurai says XBOW was designed from the start to be fully autonomous, given no prior information and needing no human in the loop.
“that XBOW would be a fully autonomous tool that would be given zero information and would require zero humans in the loop.”
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