Inference by Turing Post
Inference by Turing Post
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Inference is Turing Post’s way of asking the big questions about AI — and refusing easy answers. Each episode starts with a simple prompt: “When will we…?” – and follows it wherever it leads.Host Ksenia Se sits down with the people shaping the future firsthand: researchers, founders, engineers, and entrepreneurs. The conversations are candid, sharp, and sometimes surprising – less about polished visions, more about the real work happening behind the scenes.It’s called Inference for a reason: opinions are great, but we want to connect the dots – between research breakthroughs, business moves, technical hurdles, and shifting ambitions.If you’re tired of vague futurism and ready for real conversations about what’s coming (and what’s not), this is your feed. Join us – and draw your own inference.
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The podcast explores themes centered on AI development, coding philosophy, and AI challenges. Key episodes include discussions on the future of coding with Amjad Masad reflecting on AI agents and their role in software development, Sharon Zhou dissecting AI hallucinations and the importance of grounding benchmarks in reality, and Mati Staniszewski tackling real-time language translation and maintaining emotional nuance in AI voice synthesis, illustrating a commitment to thoughtful, nuanced explorations of AI's impact on society.
Inference is Turing Post’s way of asking the big questions about AI — and refusing easy answers. Each episode starts with a simple prompt: “When will we…?” – and follows it wherever it leads.
Host Ksenia Se sits down with the people shaping the future firsthand: researchers, founders, engineers, and entrepreneurs. The conversations are candid, sharp, and sometimes surprising – less about polished visions, more about the real work happening behind the scenes.
It’s called Inference for a reason: opinions are great, but we want to connect the dots – between research breakthroughs, business moves, technical hurdles, and shifting ambitions.
If you’re tired of vague futurism and ready for real conversations about what’s coming (and what’s not), this is your feed. Join us – and draw your own inference.
What happens when the biggest advocate for coding literacy starts telling people not to learn to code? In this episode, Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder at Replit, joins me to talk about his controversial shift in thinking – from teaching millions how to code to building agents that do it for you. Are we entering a post-coding world? What even is programming when you’re just texting with a machine?
We talk about Replit’s evolving vision, how software agents are already powering real businesses, and why the next billion-dollar startups might be solo founders augmented by AI. Amjad also shares what still stands in the way of fully autonomous agents, how AGI fits into his long-term view, and why open source still matters in the age of AI.
Whether you’re a developer, founder, or just AI-curious, this conversation will make you rethink what it means to “build software” in 2025.
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Guest:
Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder at Replit
Website: https://replit.com/~
Additional Reading:
https://www.turingpost.com/p/amjad
Chapters
00:00 Why Amjad changed his mind about coding
00:55 From code to agents: the next abstraction layer
02:05 Cognitive dissonance and the birth of Replit agents
03:38 Agent V3: toward fully autonomous software developers
04:51 Engineering platforms for long-running agents
05:30 Do agents actually work in 2025?
05:48 Real-world examples: Replit agents in action
06:36 Is Replit still a coding platform?
07:43 Why code generation beats no-code platforms
08:22 Can AI agents really create billionaires?
10:59 Every startup is now an AI startup
12:31 Solo founders and the rise of one-person AI companies
14:00 What Amjad thinks AGI really is
17:46 Replit as a habitat for AI
19:50 Open source tools vs internal no-code systems
21:02 Replit’s evolving community vision
22:19 MCP vs A2A: who’s winning the protocol game
23:48 The books that shaped Amjad’s thinking about AI
25:47 What excites Amjad most about an AI-powered future
Turing Post is a newsletter about AI’s past, present, and future. Publisher Ksenia Semenova explores how intelligent systems are built – and how they’re changing how we think, work, and live.
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