This App Is Quietly Building the Biggest AI Dev Takeover on TikTok

Blackbox.ai is an AI coding and work assistant that plugs into your IDE and browser. It autocompletes code, answers questions, and can act as an autonomous coding agent that plans, edits, runs, and tests changes across large codebases.

It also offers cloud based remote agents that work on selected files, folders, and git commits to complete multi step development tasks with adjustable levels of autonomy.

Yes, you read that right.

Their main customers are software developers and technical teams.

The wider audience includes students and professionals who want to learn programming or boost their productivity with AI. They are seeing strong traction among younger users and education.

And yes, a big reason is that they run more than 150 TikTok accounts. Almost no one knows them on Tech Twitter. Tech Twitter is mostly a bubble of polished, VC centric, attention seeking founders. The real action often happens on mainstream platforms like TikTok, where the audience is bigger and conversions are higher.

They have already released more than 8,000 videos.

And they have passed 150 million views.

The surprising part is that almost none of these videos are in English.

They have one Arabic account with more than 220 million views across more than 2,000 videos.

They also have more than 2,000 Portuguese videos, plus Indonesian, Italian, French and many other languages. It is a huge ambassador program generating views everywhere.

Now let us look at some of their formats. We picked a sample to explore.

First, there are many videos with more than one million views that are simply recordings of Zoom calls with different skits. We did not translate these, so we will let you watch two examples.

Then there is the AI professor format. It is the classic Sora style but adapted to other languages. Here it is in Arabic.

And here it is in Spanish.

We also found more advanced formats aimed at software engineers with cleaner and more polished edits.

There are also higher quality skits in a similar style.

Some videos are simple texting screens that lead directly into an app demo. One of them has more than 190,000 bookmarks.

They also use the sneaky “over-the-should” format that Panda Extract uses so well.

They even copy very strong formats from Coconote with full scripts and websites built using Blackbox.

And as you will see, most of their accounts mix all of these formats.