Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself
Platformer Casey Newton
Replit CEO Amjad Masad says the coding education mission he spent 15 years building is now obsolete, as AI agents can write software without human code reading. Replit claims its engineers tripled code shipped per person in six months using internal agents, and the company raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation in March on track for $1 billion annual revenue by year-end. Masad predicts fewer traditional apps within three years as agents transact with each other on users' behalf, fundamentally reshaping how software gets built and deployed.
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Amjad Masad on the "self-driving company," why a CEO is a glorified router, and what's left for humans when agents do the work
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