No Priors Ep. 33 | With Replit's CEO & Co-Founder Amjad Masad

Replit’s develop-to-deploy platform and new AI tool, Ghostwriter, are breaking down the barriers to entry for beginner programmers. Replit’s CEO, co-founder, and head engineer Amjad Masad joins hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss how AI can change software engineering, the infrastructure we still need, open source foundation models, and what to expect from AI agents. Before co-founding Replit, Amjad Masad worked at Facebook as a software engineer, where he worked on infrastructure tooling. He was a founding engineer at CodeAcademy. Throughout his career, Masad has been an advocate for open-source software. 00:00 Introduction 03:55 - Impact of AI on Code Generation 11:09 - Breaking Down Barriers to Entry in Development with Replit 14:35 - The Impact of Open Source Models, Meta/Llama 20:32 - Bounties, Agents who Make Money 24:26 - The Missing Data Spec-to-Code 32:29 - Building the Future of AI, Money as a Programmable Primitive