Masad: Replit Agent struggles with database migrations during product iteration
Amjad Masad · Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO) · Nov 21, 2024 · at 17:24
Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, discusses current technical limitations of AI coding agents for non-technical users with Lenny Rachitsky.
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“For example, you know, it's not very good at data database migrations. And so we're trying to fix that. So, you know, a lot of when you're iterating on the product, a lot of the times you're actually you know, changing the structure of the app and that, that requires database migrations. And so now like it might change the database in a way that creates an error that's unrecoverable. And at that point it, you might get stuck, especially if you don't know how to code.”
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