Itβs no secret that AI is starting to play a pivotal role in the lives of developers. In the past few months alone, weβve seen products that automate parts of the terminal, squash bugs, and handle pesky PR tasks.
Replit, the billion-dollar IDE startup, has launched a new tool that makes going from idea to finished app as easy as typing a prompt. Replit Agent isnβt just another run-of-the-mill coding copilot β itβs more like a junior software intern who can understand your goal and help bring it to life. It can understand natural language prompts and help create applications from scratch, making software development more accessible to users of all skill levels.
This isnβt anything particularly new on the surface. Do you remember Devin? The difference here is that Replit Agent can reason through a task and create its own steps to complete it β such as writing code, setting up environments, and managing deployments, rather than just taking a prompt and responding in code.
According to Replit CEO Amjad Masad, this isnβt about replacing developers but rather enabling developers of all skill levels to be more creative, saying, "We've crossed a threshold. This isn't about AI replacing developers. It's about supercharging human creativity and making software creation accessible to everyone.β