AI is writing working code now. It's a big deal.
Today, most people use computers and their data through apps, and so are limited by the choices of their developers. But being able to write and execute code unleashes the full power of computing, and that will fundamentally change how knowledge work gets done.
Building apps from prompts is cool, but there's a bigger way AI coding will play out - Scripts. Scripts are programs that do things. They interact with systems and take actions, step by step, to automate complete workflows.
We don't think people want more interfaces to learn. People want the boring stuff out of the way. We believe AI for knowledge work will manifest as ubiquitous scripting.
Very soon, everyone will casually write ad hoc scripts to analyze data and automate workflows. Everyone will use code and AI to scale themselves to have a bigger impact.
AI for coding is moving 10X faster than any other capability. AI agents are able to do huge amounts of complex, reliable work with just a few prompts.
We believe the way to deploy AI agents for general knowledge work is to implement the company’s operations in code. Policies, workflows, processes — everything in one codebase. A codebase an AI agent can effectively understand, navigate, use, and edit.
Many companies are trying to shape AI agents to resemble human employees as closely as possible, but this is misguided. The intelligence of LLMs is spiky. In some ways they are superhuman, and in others they'll be far behind for a while.
The interface with human employees evolved around limitations AI doesn't have, and relies on qualities currently only humans have. We're designing a tool, from first principles, around what this new intelligence is actually good at, rather than trying to force a traditional interface onto it.
We're trying to solve scriptable work - all repetitive tasks, mundane work, and undifferentiated effort. Letting humans exercise their unique taste, judgment, and creativity.