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Y Combinator Verified account @ycombinator · 4d

Replit was building toward the AI coding era years before it had a name. In 2024, the company shipped an agent that could take a request in plain English, work through errors, provision its own infrastructure, and keep going until the software actually worked. The model companies even reached out to ask how Replit had pulled it off.

Co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad had been thinking about making programming radically more accessible since 2008, and Replit’s original pitch deck predicted AI-generated code before the Transformer paper was published. Today, that same technology is moving into banks, manufacturers, and other large companies, where Amjad says teams are replacing software projects once scoped at $10 million with $250,000 of Replit.

On How to Build the Future, @paulg sits down with @amasad to talk about why @Replit was so well positioned when coding agents arrived, what comes after vibe coding, and his bigger vision for the “self-driving company,” where AI agents increasingly build and operate the software a company needs.

00:00 - "You guys basically invented vibe coding"
02:43 - Watching users copy-paste from ChatGPT
05:27 - The origins of Replit
08:00 - People underestimate their ability to predict the future
10:27 - Grieving the craft
12:52 - A culture of obsessing over users
15:13 - Why enterprises pick Replit
17:28 - The agent was just another user
20:17 - It barely worked, and users loved it
23:13 - $10 million projects now for $250,000
25:45 - Sandboxing for humans
28:14 - "The self-driving company"
30:34 - The way AI flows into companies
33:28 - What Steve Jobs knew before the iPad
35:59 - Killing the sacred cow
38:25 - The rest of the world is two years behind
41:15 - The compute brought on AI
43:46 - The person who assumes dramatic change

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travis kalanick Verified account @travisk · 2d

Had a little time on my hands this morning to do some writing… send along to someone you know who may benefit
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“Practical principles to counter a modern-day coup/psyop/struggle session”

1) Own what you did but fiercely resist accommodating the mob, resist owning half-truths or actions/behaviors you didn’t do.

2) The op is not about your past actions, it’s about your enemies and this event as their opportunity

3) No matter how bad it gets, nothing is as bad as it seems.

4) Find the enemies at the very root of the op and find every creative problem-solving tool at your disposal to neutralize them.

5) People will throw their grandmother under the bus if they believe doing so will protect their reputation. They can become highly useful idiots in the op. Their power and access must be fiercely and quickly cut off.

6) Do not hesitate in cutting off anyone you suspect of disloyalty.

7) Build a team of close and loyal patriots and have one of them run a dedicated, well-resourced war room to put the rebellion to rest.

8) Use your patriots and regular meditation to buoy your psychological resistance to the op.

9) Your enemies aren’t as smart or hard working as you. Outsmart and outwork them as a way of life until the op is over.

10) Think about the op as if it were in the past. What are the difficult things you procrastinated on or avoided that would have stopped the op? Do them.

11) Never be ashamed of the op. Business as usual. Continue on with optimism and joy in your everyday work and its mission.

12) Download telegram and use it as your messaging application for all sensitive communications.

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Mostly Borrowed Ideas Verified account @borrowed_ideas · 5d

$ABNB had a great quarter, but I think Chesky is arguing against a bunch of straw men when it comes to agents.

full piece: mbi-deepdives.com/abnb3q26/

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