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The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 5:34 Amjad Masad Uh, one day, you know, I, as, as always, I'm, like, lurking on Hacker News, um, and I see, you know, this startup Code Academy, uh, like, maybe a couple months after I open sourced all the, all the infrastructure that we built, um, and,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:22 Matt Turck So Goodcademy was the, the way in?
- ▶ 11:12 Amjad Masad Uh, and so, I was, uh, really passionate about joining Codecademy, and at the time, you saw a ton of people come online, and in Africa, and India, and, um, and then Android had just, uh, started going, and, and, uh, it felt like everyone's… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:23 Amjad Masad I kind of, like, burnt out while working at Codecademy, and I, I wanted to do, to do other things, and, um, but, like, actually the project kept growing.
- ▶ 30:45 Amjad Masad So as part of my work at both Facebook and Code Academy, I worked in compilers and interpreters, and there are very, you know, kind of finicky programming exercise.