Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming up 00:47 - Intro 01:15 - Making an app with Replit 06:19 - Feel the AGI, personal software era 08:07 - Having AI code the way humans do 09:51 - You should still learn to code! 11:42 - The underlying tech 17:19 - The path to AGI 19:41 - What users made with Replit 25:56 - Challenges in resetting the org 33:29 - Future plans 36:12 - Outro
But they mentioned in the video, that it's still not a replacement for you taking responsibility of the code, yet. Probably it's only a great tool to get started with a project
As someone whose business's flagship app was built in Replit with help from LLMs, Amjad is way too optimistic. For anything more sophisticated than toy apps, you've got to have software architecting, system and database administering, and lots of software engineering expertise just to pose the right questions to the AI. We're getting there, but it will take at least a couple more years to get where Amjad describes as today.
As a software developer i find the title of this video surreal. IT IS JUST NOT TRUE THAT YOU CAN DEVELOP A SOFTWARE PRODUCT (EVEN A VERY SIMPLE ONE) AND DEPLOY IT WITH JUST AI.
Yes you can, I made two Apps on AppStore with 99% ClaudeSonnet 3.5 and Cursor AI. And much more. Feels like I have a 10 person team delivering code for me in 10 seconds, that other does in 10 days
This is an excellent roundtable discussion! Note that one of the speakers is talking about the difference between effective AGI and true AGI. It has become quite clear to many of us AI aficionados that effective AGI is just “a few thousand days away”
I used Replit for the first time Yesterday and it Started spinning and got stock in some loop so had to stop it and redo some times o but Eventually it did Create my first LLM API integration and deployed it which made me really happy
This saves me like 5 second compared to just using Cursor AI that have been out for several months. The drawback is lock-in to replit, compared to Cursor AI that is just a good IDE over Claude Sonnet 3.5 and ChatGPT o1
Why is a "path to AGI" part of this interview? Why keep pushing science fiction ideas when you are trying to push forward real products? Isn't it because you know is just all BS?
Sounds true, but everyone can talk; yet not everyone is a public speaker. Quality, choosing what to build and how to deliver it still will be the differentiators (*even when eventually coding is a fringe role)
@@IntegrandoIA I agree with you. However choosing what to build and how to deliver eventually will not be a topic too. AI will tell you what is the most effective strategy. So how would a business stand out?
AI driven agent-assistant will make engineers life less stressful and also help to spot a bug in a codebase in minutes instead of scrolling through hours
On top of drawing in the UI, it would be nice to be able to take pictures of something sketched on a piece of paper. It's so much easier to use pen and paper as compared to freeform drawing on a screen.
It can make an MVP but the code is not production quality. Don’t get your hopes up. Maybe for like a very very simple back office app with a clearly defined and simple use case you can use AI.
Hi, please do another podcast about Vertical Ai Agents - Last one was great! You could showcase some other SAAS start ups, that are using AI to leverage their business model. Thank you!
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1. You guys at YC will never accept a non technical team who has built an app this way. Oh, the irony. 2. How best LLMs work (like GPT latest) with remembering context + how a webapp like replit works, by creating the bearbones of a project + sticking these 2 together = this 'magic'. 3. Nothing new whatsoever. AI is a nice tool, this right here is the smaller incremental step possible and I really am not that impressed. I mean, at all. Even codepen or any other similar too can easily achieve what replit does. They already have workflows and processes to create barebone app. They just need to create a manifest with all the possible way and then allow a LLM to choose the best stack based on the input. Then fill in the blanks. It's the as simple as I described it, granted. But still, has no WOW factor.
Sounds like solutionism. You sure can use these AI Agents to code simple app that will work half the time when you give em the right inputs. Going from a half baked app to a production ready one is where it gets really challenging. And, the bar is so so so high now so I wouldn't say AI agents can build your 'whole' app.
@@ycombinator I agree that current AI tools are useful but often too general-purpose, which limits how deeply they can dive into specific domains-especially when it comes to coding. Even the specialized coding AIs out there still face these limitations. That’s why we’ve taken a different approach, and we’re launching our solution in just 2 weeks. Our AI agents are designed specifically for backend programming, and we’re already in the testing phase. Unlike most solutions, ours are vertically built, and in certain areas, we orchestrate our AI agents in a more opinionated way. While this can occasionally limit creativity, it ensures that we’re building systems that actually work. We believe the future of solving every software problem won’t come from one tool but rather the union of specialized systems like ours, each focused on specific areas of development." ı will leave a link here soon
We are launching our MVP in 2 weeks, and it creates complex apps that actually work. I will edit here and provide a link 🚀🚀🚀(u still need to know how to code)
@@denizturk4307 i can wait to see it. in our company, some small FAANG is banned to use any gpt related tools, use it and get fired because of the issues that produce.
The messaging here seems a bit confusing- on the one hand 'anyone' can code, which implies that we will all be interacting on the level of natural language- but there also seems to be a view that learning to code will still be required? Given the entire history of programming computers is a story of increasing levels of abstraction away from the need to 'speak the computer's language' then isn't the long term outcome of this trend inevitably going to be a programming languge that everyone does already know, which is spoken and written language as used in everyday life?
Commenters, the direction is more important than the snapshot. I used it on day 1 and was impressed but it wasn’t fully baked. But it’s a work in progress and this is going to learn faster than most people will. Make your decisions with the assumption that these tools get better every year. They might not out-code a top coder, bit a top coder with it is better than one without. And many businesses don’t have top coders.
Then they should put this on the title and not make it totally clickbaity and missguided. It can't be more far away from the truth. They all sit there smiling knowing they are giving information in a mischeviuos way.
Neither! PWA is not simple. A.I can outline how to build a pwa very well and concise but it cannot build it for you hence you still have to know how to write code.
Designers are taking over because if you can design good UIs, you can learn to code with the help of AI tutors. But it still takes a human, and not just that, but a dedicated and growing team of humans to manage the AI tools.
@@0x0007Nexcept he's right. There's plenty of studies showing that code bases made with AI tend have security issues, a lot of bugs, the majority of commits are just bug fixes for ai generated code and it takes longer to fix as opposed to just writing without AI, leading to a lot of tech debt. If you don't have a technical background, you can't even perceive the flaws in your code
That example of Mickey Mouse and fantasia is so on the nose, isn't the lesson of that story/movie that you should play with things you dont fully understand? And wont agents maybe run amok in ways we cant control? I'm positive about Ai and I'm building with it, but shouldn't we atleast have an honest conversation about what we are doing as Mickey should have told himself, maybe I shouldn't mess with this super powerful spell book since I don't know how the spell truly work? Food for though
his concepts are not wrong, just misplaced till date, coders still learn via hands on and via getting elbow grease on real software work, they may be able to get an opportunity by getting a computer science degree those who relied on paper qualifications almost never begin anywhere current AI models can do basic "coworker" level coding tasks, tasks that are already well known and established, produce bugs, require oversight, but replacing repetition, which is what modern "workers" do. when AI researchers and founders actually starts making real models that can really reason and replace coding there will be huge upheaval and true androids will come we are at infancy but a start
I feel like these videos gaslight me because every time I watch one I go back to my codebase and start using AI on it, and immediatley get slapped in the face by AI's drunk toddler style of coding. 🤔 Then I yell "GARRY!!!" and table flip - and repeat it all the next time a lightcone video comes out telling me AI can program stuff now, but for real this time.
Yeah but like, if it starts working I could remake it like 10 minutes as it's going to be a trivial CRUD app, as that is currently the extent of what AI can realistically generate. Remake my startup Houski with AI. I'll wait.
When people said they wanted AI they meant a robot to walk their dog. Why are the only AI we can make the ones that takes peoples jobs 😢? So now people will have no job and still have to walk their dog. 😂
Pure marketing, lowest quality. But it definitely makes sense from the YC perspective to sell their investments. No pressure, but it's sad to see this channel become marketing one
Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) -
00:00 - Coming up
00:47 - Intro
01:15 - Making an app with Replit
06:19 - Feel the AGI, personal software era
08:07 - Having AI code the way humans do
09:51 - You should still learn to code!
11:42 - The underlying tech
17:19 - The path to AGI
19:41 - What users made with Replit
25:56 - Challenges in resetting the org
33:29 - Future plans
36:12 - Outro
I’ll believe this when YC accepts a non-technical confounding team using these agents to build their products.
Great point!
The only verification 👍
agreed
Only if the industry is correct and the non technical cofounders have brilliant awesome shinny backgrounds lol
But they mentioned in the video, that it's still not a replacement for you taking responsibility of the code, yet. Probably it's only a great tool to get started with a project
As someone whose business's flagship app was built in Replit with help from LLMs, Amjad is way too optimistic. For anything more sophisticated than toy apps, you've got to have software architecting, system and database administering, and lots of software engineering expertise just to pose the right questions to the AI. We're getting there, but it will take at least a couple more years to get where Amjad describes as today.
As a software developer i find the title of this video surreal. IT IS JUST NOT TRUE THAT YOU CAN DEVELOP A SOFTWARE PRODUCT (EVEN A VERY SIMPLE ONE) AND DEPLOY IT WITH JUST AI.
Not yet, but you'll be amazed at the complex systems it can create. I'll share a link before our launch.
Yes you can, I made two Apps on AppStore with 99% ClaudeSonnet 3.5 and Cursor AI.
And much more.
Feels like I have a 10 person team delivering code for me in 10 seconds, that other does in 10 days
This is an excellent roundtable discussion! Note that one of the speakers is talking about the difference between effective AGI and true AGI. It has become quite clear to many of us AI aficionados that effective AGI is just “a few thousand days away”
I used Replit for the first time Yesterday and it Started spinning and got stock in some loop so had to stop it and redo some times o but Eventually it did Create my first LLM API integration and deployed it which made me really happy
This saves me like 5 second compared to just using Cursor AI that have been out for several months. The drawback is lock-in to replit, compared to Cursor AI that is just a good IDE over Claude Sonnet 3.5 and ChatGPT o1
Why is a "path to AGI" part of this interview? Why keep pushing science fiction ideas when you are trying to push forward real products? Isn't it because you know is just all BS?
the average PM , Manager type, can't auto-generate an app , they don't know where to paste, and how to structure code..
If every can code, no one can build a business out of it.
ps: not everyone can code
if everyone is super, nobody is super
-someone from one of the incredibles movies i dont know
@@Peppermynt. Exatcly! That’s Syndrome btw from the first movie
@@Peppermynt. kind of a based quote in this context
Sounds true, but everyone can talk; yet not everyone is a public speaker. Quality, choosing what to build and how to deliver it still will be the differentiators (*even when eventually coding is a fringe role)
@@IntegrandoIA I agree with you. However choosing what to build and how to deliver eventually will not be a topic too. AI will tell you what is the most effective strategy. So how would a business stand out?
who is this content for? is YC accepting non-technical founders that make their apps with these tools now?
I love this dude! Amazing product he is working on
AI driven agent-assistant will make engineers life less stressful and also help to spot a bug in a codebase in minutes instead of scrolling through hours
On top of drawing in the UI, it would be nice to be able to take pictures of something sketched on a piece of paper. It's so much easier to use pen and paper as compared to freeform drawing on a screen.
I’ll be appearing on this channel in a couple of weeks as a YC founder Insha’Allah
It can make an MVP but the code is not production quality. Don’t get your hopes up. Maybe for like a very very simple back office app with a clearly defined and simple use case you can use AI.
Hi,
please do another podcast about Vertical Ai Agents -
Last one was great!
You could showcase some other SAAS start ups, that are using AI to leverage their business model.
Thank you!
Insights By "YouSum Live"
00:00:30 Personal software revolutionizes app development
00:00:34 Users can build apps in minutes
00:01:30 Live demo showcases mood tracking app
00:08:17 AI assists in coding and debugging
00:09:20 Incremental learning is key for coding
00:20:27 AI tools enhance creativity and productivity
00:22:58 Users create apps faster than ever
00:34:35 Future improvements focus on reliability
00:35:01 Enhanced user interaction through drawing
00:36:01 Advanced users gain more control over code
Insights By "YouSum Live"
1. You guys at YC will never accept a non technical team who has built an app this way. Oh, the irony.
2. How best LLMs work (like GPT latest) with remembering context + how a webapp like replit works, by creating the bearbones of a project + sticking these 2 together = this 'magic'.
3. Nothing new whatsoever. AI is a nice tool, this right here is the smaller incremental step possible and I really am not that impressed. I mean, at all.
Even codepen or any other similar too can easily achieve what replit does. They already have workflows and processes to create barebone app. They just need to create a manifest with all the possible way and then allow a LLM to choose the best stack based on the input. Then fill in the blanks. It's the as simple as I described it, granted. But still, has no WOW factor.
Sounds like solutionism. You sure can use these AI Agents to code simple app that will work half the time when you give em the right inputs. Going from a half baked app to a production ready one is where it gets really challenging. And, the bar is so so so high now so I wouldn't say AI agents can build your 'whole' app.
First just a little then all at once
@@ycombinator I agree that current AI tools are useful but often too general-purpose, which limits how deeply they can dive into specific domains-especially when it comes to coding. Even the specialized coding AIs out there still face these limitations. That’s why we’ve taken a different approach, and we’re launching our solution in just 2 weeks.
Our AI agents are designed specifically for backend programming, and we’re already in the testing phase. Unlike most solutions, ours are vertically built, and in certain areas, we orchestrate our AI agents in a more opinionated way. While this can occasionally limit creativity, it ensures that we’re building systems that actually work.
We believe the future of solving every software problem won’t come from one tool but rather the union of specialized systems like ours, each focused on specific areas of development." ı will leave a link here soon
@@ycombinatorlet's cause unemployment for everyone and the rich VCs enjoy a good life
Nice marketing
But thinking you will replace developers is just silly
Demo is great
Production is different
they didn't say that, though. did you watch the thing?
@@grukoin2789 they are implying it
Can you provide link to a meaningful app fully developed by AI?
is the app is basically is a form in react that is doing nothing sure. :)
We are launching our MVP in 2 weeks, and it creates complex apps that actually work. I will edit here and provide a link 🚀🚀🚀(u still need to know how to code)
@@denizturk4307 i can wait to see it. in our company, some small FAANG is banned to use any gpt related tools, use it and get fired because of the issues that produce.
@@denizturk4307 looking forward to seeing it
The messaging here seems a bit confusing- on the one hand 'anyone' can code, which implies that we will all be interacting on the level of natural language- but there also seems to be a view that learning to code will still be required?
Given the entire history of programming computers is a story of increasing levels of abstraction away from the need to 'speak the computer's language' then isn't the long term outcome of this trend inevitably going to be a programming languge that everyone does already know, which is spoken and written language as used in everyday life?
Commenters, the direction is more important than the snapshot. I used it on day 1 and was impressed but it wasn’t fully baked. But it’s a work in progress and this is going to learn faster than most people will. Make your decisions with the assumption that these tools get better every year. They might not out-code a top coder, bit a top coder with it is better than one without. And many businesses don’t have top coders.
Then they should put this on the title and not make it totally clickbaity and missguided. It can't be more far away from the truth. They all sit there smiling knowing they are giving information in a mischeviuos way.
Can I build a native mobile app with replit or is it just PWA.
Neither! PWA is not simple. A.I can outline how to build a pwa very well and concise but it cannot build it for you hence you still have to know how to write code.
happy they are pushing to still learn to code, as a newbie there's so many clickbait youtube videos saying to stop coding is dead, blah blah.
Can you download the generated code or the database or host it elsewhere?
Yes, from what I remember
Really cool!
I have been using Cursor to build my app as a non tech.
Designers are taking over because if you can design good UIs, you can learn to code with the help of AI tutors. But it still takes a human, and not just that, but a dedicated and growing team of humans to manage the AI tools.
They will be replaced soon enough.
Figma already added AI agent that will do the work... Maybe 😁
You still need to understand how coding works, how algorithms work. Nope not everyone can code.
Not at all
youre wrong.
@@0x0007Nexcept he's right. There's plenty of studies showing that code bases made with AI tend have security issues, a lot of bugs, the majority of commits are just bug fixes for ai generated code and it takes longer to fix as opposed to just writing without AI, leading to a lot of tech debt. If you don't have a technical background, you can't even perceive the flaws in your code
@@KAIZENTECHNOLOGIES Not at all.
Nah, I may not have taken CS classes, but as good as ChatGPT and Claude are at building and debugging, I can accomplish what I need to do.
🙏❤️
That example of Mickey Mouse and fantasia is so on the nose, isn't the lesson of that story/movie that you should play with things you dont fully understand? And wont agents maybe run amok in ways we cant control?
I'm positive about Ai and I'm building with it, but shouldn't we atleast have an honest conversation about what we are doing as Mickey should have told himself, maybe I shouldn't mess with this super powerful spell book since I don't know how the spell truly work? Food for though
❤❤
his concepts are not wrong, just misplaced
till date, coders still learn via hands on and via getting elbow grease on real software work,
they may be able to get an opportunity by getting a computer science degree
those who relied on paper qualifications almost never begin anywhere
current AI models can do basic "coworker" level coding tasks, tasks that are already well known and established, produce bugs, require oversight, but replacing repetition, which is what
modern "workers" do.
when AI researchers and founders
actually starts making real models that can really reason and replace coding
there will be huge upheaval and true androids will come
we are at infancy but a start
4:04 2023 Mood Logger xD
Please add subtitles
I feel like these videos gaslight me because every time I watch one I go back to my codebase and start using AI on it, and immediatley get slapped in the face by AI's drunk toddler style of coding. 🤔
Then I yell "GARRY!!!" and table flip - and repeat it all the next time a lightcone video comes out telling me AI can program stuff now, but for real this time.
then you will be shocked when we launch our solution in 2 weeks. please remind me i will update here
Yeah but like, if it starts working I could remake it like 10 minutes as it's going to be a trivial CRUD app, as that is currently the extent of what AI can realistically generate. Remake my startup Houski with AI. I'll wait.
what is baron corbin doing here?
“Mini-Chesky moment” LOL
Anyone could code before with effort. Tools have never made it easier.
Who owns the IP?
As long as the AI doesn’t plagiarize non-permissive source code, it belongs to the developer.
This is so exciting!! Im HYPED I'm one of those 15 year idea guys...LOL
What's your idea?
guys, what about the nerf of Claude replies?... it s all over reddit
exactly
sure
When people said they wanted AI they meant a robot to walk their dog. Why are the only AI we can make the ones that takes peoples jobs 😢? So now people will have no job and still have to walk their dog. 😂
God forbid AI actually solve a real world problem.
i cant figure out why garys comments are always so irritating
So what
lol
Pure marketing, lowest quality. But it definitely makes sense from the YC perspective to sell their investments. No pressure, but it's sad to see this channel become marketing one
I see bunch of jokers talking bs....