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Amjad Masad

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2535 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

It's going writing the code.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

fixing the bugs, testing.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

We gave it a browser, so it can start a browser.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

It can look at the app itself.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

It can test it.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

It can go to the internet, fetch information.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

It can integrate other AI models like image generation and things like that.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And you go through this process, and I think within an hour or two, most people have an app that they're ready to put in front of a user.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

It depends on the idea, obviously.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

But for a lot of ideas, you can get something done that you can share with a friend or a targeted user and get feedback from them.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

you don't need any development experience.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

You need grit and you need to be like a fast learner.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

You need to be, like I will say, if you're like a good gamer, if you can like jump in a game and figure it out really quickly, you're really good at this.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

But even if you're not a good gamer, you'll figure it out eventually.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

But people who are, who grew up with technology or like fast learners are now like the best at this.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

I will venture to say that

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

not having a coding experience is becoming an advantage because coders get lost in the details.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Product people, people who are focused on solving a problem, on making money, they're going to be focused on marketing, they're going to be focused on user interface, they're going to be focused on all the right things.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

So at some point, I think this year it's going to flip and I think not having a coding background is going to be more advantageous for the entrepreneur.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Now when the company grows and you're getting a lot of revenue coming in, at some point you'll hire engineers just to make sure the security and the infrastructure is scaling and Repli continues to help with that as well.