Amjad Masad: preference

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…You're basically sitting there behind an engineer on a computer and just watching them code is what the experience feels like. Yeah, and actually, the way we built it is it's a multiplayer system. So Replit has real time, what we call multiplier coding, and we reused the multiplayer system to build the agent. So the agent in the code is structured as another user of the platform. So basically, we're both coding together. So I can go into the files here and that's the thing that makes Replit really cool. I think people are familiar with some of the more chat interfaces like v0 and others where it's purely chat, but this is a full IDE where you can go and look at the files and edit them yourself or ask the AI for an explanation. What's the limitation of what this can do today? What can't you do? Say you're like, you have zero coding experience, what sorts of products can you not yet build with something like this that might be possible in the future? How far does this take you now?…

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