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Ramp builds custom AI coding agent Inspect, surpassing third-party tools

Ramp has developed an in-house AI coding agent named Inspect, which is now used for a significant portion of their code merges. Unlike many companies that utilize third-party tools like GitHub Copilot or Claude Code, Ramp opted to build their own solution to overcome limitations with existing offerings. Inspect provides engineers with remote, sandboxed development environments that offer greater concurrency, centralized configuration, and access to internal company data and tools, enabling more robust verification of both backend and frontend changes. AI

IMPACT Custom AI tools may offer superior performance and integration for specific enterprise needs, potentially shifting the 'buy vs. build' paradigm for internal development.

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Ramp builds custom AI coding agent Inspect, surpassing third-party tools

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  1. The Pragmatic Engineer TIER_1 English(EN) · Gergely Orosz ·

    Why Ramp built its own in-house coding agent, Inspect

    A fintech company rejected the easy route and homebrewed its own coding agent &#8211; and is now a step ahead of coding agents from frontier AI labs. An in-depth look