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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
And even if there's like some
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
process in between that you're doing some transformation in the data that you're doing, you can also have the AI do that.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
So, for example, like...
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
Every company has this person that's called the deal desk person, every B2B company especially.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
And the deal desk person is responsible for generating quotes to give order forms to give salespeople.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
So the salespeople put in the deal...
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
content in Salesforce, the deal desk person pulls it from Salesforce, puts it in a PDF, and then like post it to like Slack or some other chat group.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
They talk about it, they send it to the client, the client gives them feedback, they go, they regenerate that.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
And a lot of companies end up hiring a lot of people doing just that.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
Like, you know, there's also entire complicated software systems that people pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for called
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
quote configurators, right?
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
So we hired a steel desk person and she automated all of that.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
Every time we get a new deal in a CRM, there's an AI that generates the order form directly, posts it in Slack.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
The salespeople take it like, you know, they send it to the client, they get feedback.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
In Slack, they give the bot feedback
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
feedback on the thing.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
It kind of updates it and they send it back.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
So a lot of that used to be manual copy pasting things and putting that from Excel to Word to CRM.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
So anyone listening to this, working at a company, if you want to get a promotion, just look around you and see what people are copy pasting data around.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
And you can build a bot or you can build an AI or you can build a piece of software that can automate that.