Replit is an AI-powered, cloud-based platform that provides a browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) for coding, building, and deploying applications. It supports a wide range of programming languages and allows for real-time collaboration, making it easy for beginners and experienced developers to turn ideas into functional apps with or without extensive coding knowledge. The platform features an AI agent that generates code from natural language prompts and handles complex tasks like database integration and deployment.
Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, a browser-based coding environment that allows anyone to write and deploy code. Replit has 34 million users globally and is one of the fastest-growing developer communities in the world. Prior to Replit, Amjad worked at Facebook, where he led the JavaScript infrastructure team and contributed to popular open-source developer tools. Additionally, he played a key role as a founding engineer at the online coding school Codecademy. In our conversation, Amjad shares:
• A live demo of Replit in action
• How Replit’s AI agent can build full-stack web applications from a simple text prompt
• The implications of AI-powered development for product managers, designers, and engineers
• How this might reshape companies and careers
• Why being “generative” will become an increasingly valuable skill
• “Amjad’s law” and how learning to debug AI-generated code is becoming ever more valuable
• Much more