Reid Hoffman Co-Founder of LinkedIn, Surprised After Seeing LinkedIn’s Clone Produced by AI

Over the years, AI technologies have grown in capability, becoming more accurate and efficient at a wide variety of jobs. One notable instance of this occurred when Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, experimented with an AI tool that caused it to recreate the whole LinkedIn platform. He was shocked when the AI created a "surprisingly functional prototype" that demonstrated its amazing powers. In his LinkedIn post, Hoffman highlighted the experiment's findings and expressed his surprise at the AI tool's capacity to produce a functional prototype. In a LinkedIn post, he stated that he had asked Replit to "clone LinkedIn" in order to test the platform's capabilities with only one command. “The outcome? An unexpectedly useful prototype,” he noted. It serves as a potent reminder that modern AI techniques may transform a single notion into functional software with the correct framing.

What is Replit?

Replit is a firm that lets consumers utilise AI to create websites and apps. It makes programming accessible to anyone by utilising an innovative AI model called Replit Agent, which functions as an automated app developer. The CEO of Replit, Amjad Masad, previously stated that learning to code is useless since coding jobs will soon be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI). Masad reposted a video of himself defending his claim on X. In the video, he concurred with Anthropic's Dario Amodei, who forecasted that nearly all codes in the future would be generated by artificial intelligence. He also stated that in the worst-case scenario, all code will be generated by AI, similar to what Dario recently stated. "I assume that on this optimisation path we're on, where agents are going to get better and better and better, the answer would be different. The answer would be no. It would be a waste of time to learn how to code. But you could have different predictions, and I think different people will make different assumptions," he added."

Sundar Pichai’s Prediction Regarding Coding

Masad's remarks followed Google CEO Sundar Pichai's disclosure that 25% of the company's new code is generated by AI, albeit engineers evaluate it afterwards. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, recently said that AI has already replaced half of the coding in many businesses. According to Pichai, Google is also utilising AI internally to enhance its coding procedures, increasing efficiency and productivity. At Google, artificial intelligence now creates more than 25% of all new code, which engineers subsequently evaluate and approve. This enables the company's engineers to work more efficiently. Google provides its clients with customised hardware accelerators for AI applications, such as NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units and bespoke Tensor Processing Units.