Blitzy co-founders Brian Elliott, MBA '24, and Sid Pardeshi, MS/MBA '24 (Blitzy)
Sid Pardeshi knew about the potential of artificial intelligence long before he joined the MS/MBA program co-run by the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Harvard Business School (HBS). He spent six years as a software engineer and architect at NVIDIA, where he designed and patented over 27 AI-related tools and products in an era when terms like “large language model” (LLM), “chatbot” and “generative AI” weren’t part of the general lexicon. His experiences taught him how mechanical software design can be, and how many of its most tedious, repetitive elements could be replaced by AI.“Software traditionally had to be written using a large number of people,” he said. “It's kind of like a conveyor belt process, where you have requirements, then you have developers implementing the solution. And then you go through code review and testing and all of that work to finally be able to gain confidence to push something into production and client-facing usage.“We were able to see quite early that the LLMs will eventually get better enough to be able to write a lot of code at once, validate the code autonomously, and produce really high-quality results.”
