Building Replit Agent - Hard Lessons Learned

//Abstract Few companies have shipped an agent at the scale of Replit, but with scale comes challenges. This talk explores how Replit built and scaled its agent, and how it adapted from a small engineering team to involving almost half of its engineering organization almost overnight. //Bio James is a Staff Software Engineer on Replit's AI Team, where he was a key contributor to Replit Agent, a Software Agent designed to allow anyone to build software from scratch. Previously he led Replit's RAG effort, and worked at Amazon. A Prosus | MLOps Community Production