AI is writing working code now. This is a bigger deal than it seems.
Today, most people can use computers and their data through apps, and therefore are limited by the choices of their makers. 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 things done. We believe AI for knowledge-work will manifest in ubiquitous scripting.
Very soon, everyone will casually write ad-hoc scripts to analyze data, automating workflows. Everyone will use code and AI to scale their taste, decision-making, and differentiated qualities to have a bigger impact.
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 don't have, and relies on qualities currenlty 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 on it.
Our mission is to give everyone superpowers to solve scriptable work. To do away with repetitive tasks, mundane work, and undifferentiated effort. To direct humans' attention to exercising their unique taste, judgment, and creativity.