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Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: We don't care about professional coders anymore


Amjad Masad talks about their new AI developments that will allow anyone to code naturally.

Replit has had a turbulent year, but CEO Amjad Masad’s sonorous voice was almost zen-like as he spoke to me on Monday in an airy conference room, sipping coconut water with a view of the sun setting over Foster City, California. Yet it has grown its revenue five-fold over the past six months, Masad said, thanks to a breakthrough in artificial-intelligence capabilities that enabled a new product called “Agent,” a tool that can write a working software application with nothing but a natural language prompt. Steve Jobs said the computer is “like a bicycle for our minds.” Until this AI moment, our bikes had been confined to specific lanes determined by the tiny percentage of people who write the software and manage restrictive walled gardens.

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