# Matt Legrand > Matt Legrand, software engineer and product designer at Anthropic (mattlegrand.ai). 2x founder inventing and scaling products in developer intelligence, digital tools, smart hardware, and creative software. Previously built products at leading tech companies. Based in New York City. The articles are published as the serial "Moving Fast & Making Things". Also written as Matthew Legrand, Matt LeGrand, insprd; the family name is one word, "Legrand". This is the personal site of Matt Legrand (https://mattlegrand.ai/). Articles are case studies and essays on product design, software development, artificial intelligence, user interface design, developer tools. Feeds: [RSS](https://mattlegrand.ai/rss.xml), [Atom](https://mattlegrand.ai/atom.xml), [JSON Feed](https://mattlegrand.ai/feed.json). The full text of every article is in [llms-full.txt](https://mattlegrand.ai/llms-full.txt). ## Career - Anthropic: Member of Technical Staff (2026 to present) - GitHub: Staff (2025) - Augment: Founding Product Designer, Head of Design (2024) - Replit: Staff Product Designer (2023) - Bubble: Head of Design (2019) - Common Sensing: Cofounder, Director of Design (2014) - IDEO: UX Designer (2013) ## Profiles - [About](https://mattlegrand.ai/about/index.md): biography and career history - - - - - - - - - - ## Work - [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. - [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. - [Idea to app, fast](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/replit-agent/index.md) (2024; AI, AI agents, Developer tools, Product design, Collaboration, No-code): Replit Agent is an AI system that can create and deploy applications from idea to deployment in just minutes, revolutionizing how developers build software. - [AI-powered development tools for modern workspaces](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/replit-ai/index.md) (2024; AI, Developer tools, Product design, Design systems): Designing workspace-aware AI that understands your codebase through context hierarchies, inline edits, and agentic workflows - [Better version control, without reinventing git](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/replit-projects/index.md) (2024; AI, Developer tools, Product design, Collaboration, Version control): How we built version control that feels native to real-time collaboration, adopting trunk-based development and code review workflows without reinventing git. - [Figma to Code transforms designs into React projects](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/figma-to-code/index.md) (2024; Developer tools, Design tools, React, Product design, Collaboration): A Figma plugin that exports designs into production-ready React projects, streamlining the journey from design to deployment. - [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. - [Where'd the color go?](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/wide-gamut-images/index.md) (2023; React, Color science, Images, Performance): Every image pipeline I've used quietly flattens Display P3 to sRGB. How I got the color back in Next.js, and then in this site's Astro build. - [Build full-stack applications without writing code](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/bubble/index.md) (2021; Design systems, Product design, No-code, UX, User research): Bubble is the world's most powerful no-code platform. The Maison design system transformed its editor experience, enabling rapid customer growth. - [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. ## Optional - [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 - [Sitemap](https://mattlegrand.ai/sitemap.xml)