# Work by Matt Legrand

URL: https://mattlegrand.ai/work/

> Every article by Matt Legrand, newest first. Each link is the article as markdown; its header carries the canonical page URL.

- [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.