# Matt Legrand, software engineer & product designer at Anthropic

URL: https://mattlegrand.ai/

> Matt Legrand, software engineer and product designer at Anthropic (mattlegrand.ai).

Technical Staff at Anthropic in New York, previously GitHub, Replit and Augment. Work on AI developer tools, coding agents and design systems.

The articles are published as the serial "Moving Fast & Making Things".

[About Matt Legrand](https://mattlegrand.ai/about/index.md) is the profile page: biography, career history, profiles, contact.

## Featured

- [Sketching with words](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/draw-ai-canvas/index.md) (2025; AI, Design tools, Product design): Teaching a drawing tool to think about space, hierarchy, and layout.
- [Tools for the next generation of software developers](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/replit/index.md) (2024; AI, Developer tools, Product design, Collaboration): Today, comparatively few people build software the rest of the world uses.
- [On Solutionism](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/solutionism-interview/index.md) (2023; Design, Interview, Ethics): Lenny Attab interviews Matt Legrand about solutionism: the idea that every problem facing humanity can be solved with creativity, and what that demands of designers.
- [Data-driven care for injectable medicine](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/gocap/index.md) (2019; Healthcare, IoT, Product design, Hardware, UX): Common Sensing succeeded in bringing a novel smart hardware device from concept to market in a difficult space.

## Recent

- [Smarter ghost text](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/ghst/index.md) (2026; AI, Developer tools, CLI, Open source): ghst is a zsh plugin that puts LLM ghost text on your command line: inline autocomplete as you type, plain-English commands, and history search by meaning, with nothing running until you press Enter.
- [Sketching with words](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/draw-ai-canvas/index.md) (2025; AI, Design tools, Product design): Teaching a drawing tool to think about space, hierarchy, and layout.
- [An agent that actually understands your codebase](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/augment-agent/index.md) (2025; AI, AI agents, Developer tools, Product design, Code intelligence): How we solved the context problem that makes most AI coding assistants useless in real codebases, creating an agent that can work with 100k+ file repositories.
- [Predicting your next edit](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/next-edit/index.md) (2025; AI, Developer tools, Code intelligence): Next Edit extends code completions beyond the cursor across your workspace, suggesting comprehensive edits to complete tasks quickly.
- [Building a context engine for real codebases](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/augment/index.md) (2024; AI, Developer tools, Product design, Code intelligence): How we built Augment's Context Engine to solve why AI coding assistants fail: understanding what matters in 100k+ file repositories.
- [Real-time collaboration tools for software teams](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/replit-teams/index.md) (2024; AI, Developer tools, Product design, Collaboration): Collaborative tools that bring the natural feel of Google Docs and Figma to software development for teams building in real time.

## More

- [All work](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/index.md): every article, newest first
- [Topics](https://mattlegrand.ai/tags/index.md): articles grouped by tag
- [Meet](https://mattlegrand.ai/meet/index.md): book a video call with Matt Legrand
- [llms.txt](https://mattlegrand.ai/llms.txt) and [llms-full.txt](https://mattlegrand.ai/llms-full.txt): the digest and the full text of every article
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