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Masad: AI add-ons will become native within a couple years
“GUI was an add-on at some point, and I think this is where we are with AI. But I don't know, I think it's a transitionary period. I think at most couple years where most companies are going to take the approach we're taking.”
Masad: AI will bifurcate developers into 'creators' and 'engineers'
“I think that there's going to be a bifurcation of software engineer and software creator. Engineers are not going away. We need engineers in the same way that Instagram did not obviate the need for professional, you know, journalists and photographers and all …”
Masad: Most Replit revenue will come from Teams and Enterprise plans
“We're kicking off a more of a sort of a teams enterprise plan, and we already have early customers there. And so I think that's where the majority of revenue over the next few years will come.”
Masad: Replit was first to deploy open-source LLM to production
“We had some of a breakthrough in June, 22, where we were the first to put an open source model in production. It was the Salesforce CodeGen model.”
Masad: Software engineers in five years will still manually type code
“Their role, if I, you know, go to the future five years in the future, they're still going to have some kind of code editor, and they're going to still have AI all over the place. They're going to have AI chat GPT, they're going to be talking to different AIs,…”
Masad: Major AI labs have sharply reduced publishing groundbreaking research
“A lot of the labs have sort of closed down how much they publish, and you might have noticed that. There isn't as much, as many groundbreaking papers. A lot of the papers are rehashing things. A lot of the papers are fake.”
Masad: JS REPL was first to run Python and Ruby in browser
“I got a prototype running and we're the first to put Python and Ruby and a few other languages in the browser. And I open sourced it.”
Masad: Replit submitted a Rickroll video for its Y Combinator application
“So I put in the Rickroll video. Rick Astey is never going to give you up. And till this day, if you go to the YC portal and you click on Repplin and you click the video where it should be the founder interview, you'll get Rickrolled.”
Masad: Replit was rejected by Y Combinator three times
“I applied to YC three times and never got in.”
Masad: Glitch raised $30M seed and had 80 people vs Replit's 5
“Glitch at the time got, their seed round was thirty million dollars, and they hired, you know, right off the bat, tens of people that got like 80 people who were like four or five at the time or something like that.”
Masad: Indie hackers scale to six-figure revenue solely on Replit Core
“And we see people scale startups to hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue as indie hackers only on the core plan.”