Slate

The Future of Development Isn't About Replacing Engineers – It's About Accelerating Them

Software is eating the world, but writing and maintaining software still depends on slow, manual processes. Engineering teams are under pressure to ship faster, onboard faster, and refactor faster — all while keeping systems secure, scalable, and aligned to evolving product goals.
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Generic AI copilots have made flashy promises, but in practice they often break things: generating code that’s brittle, context-free, or inconsistent with your architecture. They work best in isolation, not as part of real-world, team-based development.

We asked: What would it take to build an AI assistant you’d actually trust inside your production workflows?

Introducing Slate 

Slate is Farpoint’s AI-native development environment; built for real teams working on real systems. It’s an intelligent assistant that integrates deeply with your existing stack, understands your architecture, and supports engineers across the full lifecycle of software development.

Slate can write, refactor, and review code — but more importantly, it reasons across files, interprets team-specific conventions, and aligns with engineering goals like performance, testability, and modularity.

The Challenge of Software at Scale

Modern development is layered and interdependent. Every commit is a tradeoff between speed and maintainability, between innovation and safety. Most AI tools are focused on syntax, not structure. They optimize for local predictions, not systemic outcomes.

Slate was built to close that gap. By combining tuned LLMs with retrieval grounded in your own codebase and tools, it becomes a context-sensitive collaborator that works within your existing ecosystem.

Real Impact in Real Workflows

Early usage of Slate inside Farpoint and with partner teams shows:
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• 30-40% faster completion of refactors and boilerplate-heavy tasks
• Higher-quality pull requests with fewer review cycles
• Faster onboarding of new developers, aided by context-aware suggestions
• Higher trust in generated code due to alignment with internal standards

A Human-Centered Vision of Development with AI

Slate is not about removing people from the loop. It's about building tools that support real teams working on complex systems. AI can move fast, but Slate also understands when to slow down, align with structure, and help developers stay in control.

If you're building software at scale and want an assistant that understands the work behind the code, we'd love to hear from you.