Over the last couple of years we have witnessed a sea change in the world of AI. Now everyone has access to AI and what it can help us do. Some of us may push back against this, but with each iteration it gets smarter, and sometimes a little scarier.
The coding space is one area I have been really interested in and have followed nearly every development, but I have to say, I was blown away by something I tried at the weekend.
Up until now you could use AI to help you write code, to help you build apps, but you still kind of had to have a deep understanding of how to code to get optimal results otherwise you would end up down a rabbit hole, chasing errors, and having endless chats with the AI to understand why things weren’t working the way they should.
This weekend, Replit changed my views on this whole space.
For those of you not familiar with Replit, it is online coding platform which allows you to develop using almost any language and deploy your code live almost instantly without having to setup servers etc.
Replit already had amazing AI built in that you could chat to about your code, get amazing autocomplete suggestions, and fix bugs. it has been my goto coding tool since it was released.
Then they released agents…
But instead of me trying to explain what these are, take a look at this video from their CEO showing how he built a complete app and deployed it in less than two minutes, just by chatting to the AI.