They talk about the transformative role of AI in democratizing programming, technical breakthroughs in agentic AI, historical parallels in computing evolution, debates on AGI timelines, economic implications, and Masad's personal journey from Jordan to Silicon Valley.

AI is magical but there are limitations and AI coding is at the vanguard of progress.

There is a paradoxical sentiment toward AI: it's the "most amazing technology ever," achieving feats unimaginable 5–10 years ago, yet users feel it's not moving fast enough and is on the verge of stalling.

Masad attributes this to mismatched expectations—AI operates at person speed not instantaneous computer speed.

He vividly compares watching an AI agent code to observing John Carmack (legendary programmer behind Doom and id Software) on stimulants. Hyper-productive but deliberate, with pauses for reflection, tool use (web searches for compatibility issues), and self-verification.

This sets the stage for Replit's mission: making software creation as intuitive as describing an idea.

Last year AI passed the 3-5 minute reasoning time. Replit made a bet that long horizon reasoning time would increase and they would be able to use this to solve more complex programming problems with AI. Long context reasoning lets you roll out trajectories in AI. Trajectory — a step by step reasoning chain to get to a solution.

Replit's Vision is to take us from Accidental Complexity to English as the Programming Language.