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Join Replit President & Head of AI, Michele Catasta, as he shares how Replit, now valued at $9 billion, is giving every person on the planet the power to build anything they can imagine – making us all builders, creators, and architects of what comes next.

Vibe coding for the next billion

This press conference is held in the Media Village.
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Press conference with Replit President & Head of AI Michele Catasta

Most teams shipping AI products can't build evals that predict how a model will actually perform in production. Michele Catasta, President & Head of AI at Replit, shares how his team closed that gap with ViBench — a public vibe-coding benchmark that scores whether the generated app works — and the offline/online evaluation loop behind Replit Agent that turns weeks of engineering into compounding overnight gains.

Evaluating and improving Replit Agent at scale

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