Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, describes a cloud platform that lets anyone code and deploy software with AI assistance. The platform has 25 million registered developers, mostly outside the West. Replit runs a 100 Days of Code program and pays learners to complete coding tasks, treating AI as a tool to democratize programming.
My name is Amjad Massad and I'm the co founder and CEO of replit. Replit is the fastest way to go from an idea to a piece of software. We provide everything you need to write code and deploy it in the cloud. Replit has integrated AI. From the moment you have an idea, you can describe that idea to the AI, it can generate code for you. It'll help you write that code, make it better and deploy it, you know, where is Replit at? We have more than 25 million developers registered worldwide. We have people going all the way from writing the first line of code to building a business, making a lot of money and even telling their businesses and most of your users are actually non western. We see growth in these countries kind of happen almost all of a sudden. It's interesting. So there's usually like one sort of influencer or patient zero. We're also building a parallel education system for kids learning programming by doing. We also have a bounty system where kids can earn money by doing software tasks for people. And we have this program called 100 days of code. And if you can commit 20, 30 minutes a day, so as you're typing code, there's someone talking to you. I mean, you had that experience, you put up a bounty and the guy who does the bounty for you had just finished learning how to code. It's like skin in the game wave of learning. Now, AI is another foundational technology. It's as big, if not bigger than the Internet itself. So if you have idea, you have a spark of inspiration just over Replit. You don't even have to start typing any code, just talk to the AI and you can generate some code and get a quick prototype up. At Replit, we're going all in on open source AI as a parallel ecosystem because we think AI is a core part of the modern software stack. It's really about democratizing access to programming. This is a talk for the Network State conference.
