Random Labs launches Slate V1, claiming the first 'swarm-native' coding agent

Y Combinator-backed startup Random Labs has officially launched Slate V1, described as the industry’s first "swarm native" autonomous coding agent designed to execute massively parallel, complex engineering tasks.

Emerging from an open beta, the tool utilizes a "dynamic pruning algorithm" to maintain context in large codebases while scaling output to enterprise complexity. Co-founded by Kiran and Mihir Chintawar in 2024, the company aims to bridge the global engineering shortage by positioning Slate as a collaborative tool for the "next 20 million engineers" rather than a replacement for human developers.

Agentic swarm coding is the new enterprise moat

In just a few months, the ability of AI to perform complex software engineering has accelerated at a dizzying, non-linear pace. The improvement has been documented in several ways. Driven by several major advances in technology and practice, it amounts to a fundamental change in how software is created, one that is already making last year’s paradigms obsolete.

The era of "vibe coding" – the conversational, often exploratory practice of prompting an AI for code, coined by Andrej Karpathy – has given way to a more disciplined concept: agentic swarm coding.