wife, mama, recovering founder 💍 @logo_daedalus 👩🏻💻 eng lead @replit ✨ prev @Harvard, @fypm_vip, @beaconsai
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Joined August 2011
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A few weeks ago I walked around Golden Gate Park with a baby strapped to my chest and yapped about my two favorite topics, working in tech and being a mom.
There is so much more to my story than could fit in an article but I’m grateful to get to share some pieces of it 🫶
Replit product engineer Rachael Fuller said she signed her contract one week before learning she was pregnant. Here's how she managed her time. bit.ly/4aq89rY
it’s objectively not a good use of time to for humans to deal with the code on a syntactic or unit function level. There is no need to have a “grip on the code” in the way we did before.
Humans still need to be the architects, but I think there’s a real problem that no one knows how to teach the next generation of architects with these new tools. They have cheat code to skip the drudgery that forged us.
The act of manually typing out code took time, and that slowness gave space to learn from the work. Engineers now can output code that used to take years of learning in a single prompt. The space to learn is not built in to the process, and in practice it’s very hard for individuals or organizations to create that space.
The compression of time also means you don’t learn from mistakes in the same way. You don’t feel the pain of spending several weeks building the wrong abstraction for example.
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The kids will never know what it feels like to be 15 hours deep hacking on a project, a dozen tabs open in vscode, feeling the contours of the code in your bones, knowing the way the data snakes through the functions the way you do the lines on the back of your hand. The kids won’t know what it’s like to become the system, and the depth of understanding that comes with that.
They will learn how to make software, but they won’t learn how to code.
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I’ve almost stopped using the term “vibe coding” because there’s a negative connotation to it
It implies that you didn’t put a lot of effort or soul into the output and it’s just AI slop
But oftentimes people ARE putting their heart and soul into the work even when using AI coding tools. The 2 are not contradictory
We need a better word for describing this
In the old times, if I wanted to start work on a new codebase, an entire day (at least) was cooked for local dev set up.
Today, every single person at Replit can run Replit on Replit in seconds and test out changes with a single prompt. @okayzade and other designers are shipping 🔥 now that anyone with an idea can contribute.
For me, it’s meant I don’t have to give up that dopamine hit of IC life even after moving into an EM role, because I can fire off an agent from my phone to draft a PR in the liminal spaces between meetings.
Getting behind the camera is def not my comfort zone, but had to do my part to tell the world what @Replit has been cooking. Congrats to the team on my favorite launch yet 🤩
In 2018 I wrote a piece for Gartner Research Board called Sense and Respond about the idea of “ambient computing”. It imagined a world ~10 years in the future where computers would work alongside us continuously, to proactively address our needs.
That future is here, but it’s not yet evenly distributed. Companies we work with at Replit are capitalizing on ambient intelligence, they are becoming self-driving.
If self-driving cars are what happen when computers get sight; self-driving companies are what happen when computers get language. When AI teammates can inhabit the information environments of companies as adeptly as AVs navigate the streets of San Francisco.
As a researcher I tried to predict how these capabilities would transform the operations of the F500. At Replit, I get to make it a reality. The arc of my career is so poetic, sometimes I have to pinch myself to remind me it is real
We believe by the end of 2030, every Fortune 500 will be a Self-Driving Company.
That doesn’t mean AI replaces people.
It means people remain in the driver's seat leading judgment, creativity and taste, while agents fuel execution.
This is the Self-Driving Company.
replit.com/blog/rise-of-self…
Is there a Thuma equivalent for kitchen tables? Looking for simple and indestructible… ours got taken out by an overzealous game of tag
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I can’t believe I spawned a whole discourse about puke receptacles I need to log off this app
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The new trend of security vulnerability acceleration is only going to continue.
Read how we worked the past two days to mitigate, patch, and defend users.
The only path forward is proactive defensive measures that use AI. It's a big area of investment, more to share soon.
Recent vulnerabilities in widely used third-party software have created risks for businesses across the internet.
We have patched infrastructure, updated language tooling, and blocked exploits to protect your apps. We’ve applied fixes automatically wherever we can. Where you need to republish, we’re notifying you with clear instructions.
Read more on our blog: replit.com/blog/security-vul…
Making a very nice meal for your kid and having them refuse to eat is bad, but the worst is making a nice meal for your kid and then watching them puke it up 30 minutes later 🫠 🫠
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“I was already so tired and couldn’t figure out what being more tired than that would even mean.” 😭
Wrote about having two kids gq.com/story/second-child-fa…
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