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How Replit’s AI Tools are Changing Software Development with Co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad

Sep 21, 2023

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Amjad Masad, CEO, co-founder, and head engineer at Replit, discusses the potential of collaborative software development, improving AI infrastructure, the future of an agentic world, and the benefits of open-source software. They explore the impact of AI on code generation, the advantage of Replit, the future of AI, and building the future of AI with built-in currency.

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Replit's AI tool, Ghostwriter, improves coding productivity for beginners through valuable suggestions and autocompletions.

AI has the potential to revolutionize software development, permeating every aspect, from debugging to translating specifications into code.

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Replit and the AI Tool Ghostwriter

This podcast episode explores Replit, a platform with over 22 million users that allows beginners to experts to quickly build and release live apps with the help of AI. The co-founder and CEO of Replit, Amjad Masad, discusses the origins of the platform and the journey to creating an in-browser sandbox. He also shares how the AI tool Ghostwriter came about, leveraging machine learning to model code and provide valuable suggestions and autocompletions while coding. The discussion highlights the potential future developments in productivity in software development with advancements in AI and the role of open-source models like LAMA.

The Attitude of College Hackers Towards AI and Coding

01:11

Expanding AI Training for Software Development

00:57

Importance of Starting with Product and User Needs in Model Training

01:00

Introduction

2min

The Evolution of Ghostwriter: From AI Tool to AI-powered Speed Tool for Coding

13min

The Open Source Status of Lama Models and Potential Impacts

8min

The Future of Collaborative Development with Built-in Currency and AI Agents

4min

Exploring Design, Payments, and the Future of Money

3min

Replit’s develop-to-deploy platform and new AI tool, Ghostwriter, are breaking down the barriers to entry for beginner programmers. Replit’s CEO, co-founder, and head engineer Amjad Masad joins hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss how AI can change software engineering, the infrastructure we still need, open source foundation models, and what to expect from AI agents.

Before co-founding Replit, Amjad Masad worked at Facebook as a software engineer, where he worked on infrastructure tooling. He was a founding engineer at CodeAcademy. Throughout his career, Masad has been an advocate for open-source software.

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0:03:55 - Impact of AI on Code Generation

0:11:09 - Breaking Down Barriers to Entry in Development with Replit

0:14:35 - The Impact of Open Source Models, Meta/Llama

0:20:32 - Bounties, Agents who Make Money

0:24:26 - The Missing Data Spec-to-Code

0:32:29 - Building the Future of AI, Money as a Programmable Primitive

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