Amjad Masad: preference

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…I'm happy I did but I do miss that. I was not an amazing engineer. I was a good enough startup engineer, so this is the kind of stuff that I would've left to use. So we're going to jump into a demo of what this actually looks like. I thought maybe actually before we get into it, there's other tools that people are aware of that help you build stuff. And so to put a finer point on what this does and how it's different from other things, you may have heard of, say, Cursor, it comes up a lot these days, just talk about a little bit about the competitive landscape of who else is out there that helps you build product. Again, we go back to this idea of end-to-end platform for making software. So that's from writing code all the way to deploying it, and monetizing it and all of that. Now, every step in the process of the software development lifecycle, there are a lot of different tools. So Cursor is a fork of VS Code that's made that has really awesome AI tools, but that's an editor. You still need runtime, you still need a deployment environment. Actually, quite a few users use Cursor in tandem with Replit, because Replit just simplifies the runtime and deployment environment. And so you have products, AI products, different places in the software development lifecycle, but really what differentiates Replit is that we do everything, but also that makes it harder to adopt for certain people. If you're at a big company, it's very easy to bring a new editor and start coding with it. It's quite hard to bring something that's quite opinionated about everything from how the code runs to how the code deploys, but that's the trade-off we're willing to make is like yeah, we're not going to get into the enterprise main software development pipeline, but we want to empower everyone to be able to build software, and that means product managers, designers. We have operations people, sales ops, HR ops. We have lawyers using Replit, and so it is democratizing the act of software engineering. Amazing, and that's why you're here. Let's do a demo. While you're pulling it up, you're going to share your screen and show us what this product can do. And the reason I am excited about doing a demo, and this is an experiment, kind of a new type of podcast episode I'm doing where we're diving into specific products and what they can do, I feel like there's so much talk about AI and what it's doing and people keep reading about, oh, AI can do this and AI can do that, and I feel like not many people actually see this stuff in action, especially the most cutting edge stuff. I think people are unaware of just how far things have gone and how much is actually possible, especially when someone that knows what they're doing is using the product. So I'm excited to show people what is actually possible and especially because this is going to impact the future of product management and product teams. So I'll turn that over to you. Give us a demo.…

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