Amjad Masad

ceo @replit. civilizationist

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Software ate the world, now it's learning to run it. https://t.co/e0XiyjLgv8

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@RichardHanania The turkey a day before Thanksgiving: “the data shows that I’ve been fed and cared for every single day of my life so the likelihood of that changing tomorrow is basically zero.”

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@tjthedev I like how you found 17 months old post to seethe about. Hate to break it to you but it’s already over. Exponentially more so today.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@kwasiadusei2 Haha. It gets better later in the interview if I remember correctly

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

I showed Paul Graham vibe coding before it was called that back in July ‘24, and this was his reaction:

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@pascowebdesigns True

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@ianban87 Shut the fuck up Ian

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@chrisschaum Try it now

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

"But who maintains vibe coded apps?"

How about self-healing software...

[Replit ⠕ @Replit]

Build the software you want, without the maintenance.

Switch on Replit Monitoring Agent to detect and investigate production issues, validate fixes, and deploy them on your behalf.

24/7

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@jeffbruchado I think they plan to

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

If you're in Japan, check out "Enterprise Vibe Coding," a new book from SMFL's digital innovation team on how AI is transforming enterprise software development.

Coming November 27. Honored to be on the cover!

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@59thProfile yes, even more so today

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Very few things in nature are true long-term exponentials. Most follow S-curves.

I saw this when I worked at Facebook. What looked like clean exponential growth was actually a series of overlapping S-curves, each driven by technological breakthroughs and/or adoption waves.

AI is probably the same. That doesn’t mean progress will have to slow down, but sustained exponential growth isn’t automatic either.

[Séb Krier @sebkrier]

Updated version!

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

The Better Lesson:

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

Brute force computation is not enough for intelligence. Clever new methods are needed. The science of AI is far from finished. IMHO

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@rfunk82 @Replit Congratulations!!

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Really enjoyed Kazakhstan — super AI pilled government. And a great place for the Network School.

[Balaji @balajis]

Come to Astana.
Build all the datacenters you want.
Welcoming @amasad to Network School Kazakhstan.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Replit was building toward the AI coding era years before it had a name. In 2024, the company shipped an agent that could take a request in plain English, work through errors, provision its own infrastructure, and keep going until the software actually worked. The model companies even reached out to ask how Replit had pulled it off.

Co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad had been thinking about making programming radically more accessible since 2008, and Replit’s original pitch deck predicted AI-generated code before the Transformer paper was published. Today, that same technology is moving into banks, manufacturers, and other large companies, where Amjad says teams are replacing software projects once scoped at $10 million with $250,000 of Replit.

On How to Build the Future, @paulg sits down with @amasad to talk about why @Replit was so well positioned when coding agents arrived, what comes after vibe coding, and his bigger vision for the “self-driving company,” where AI agents increasingly build and operate the software a company needs.

00:00 - "You guys basically invented vibe coding"
02:43 - Watching users copy-paste from ChatGPT
05:27 - The origins of Replit
08:00 - People underestimate their ability to predict the future
10:27 - Grieving the craft
12:52 - A culture of obsessing over users
15:13 - Why enterprises pick Replit
17:28 - The agent was just another user
20:17 - It barely worked, and users loved it
23:13 - $10 million projects now for $250,000
25:45 - Sandboxing for humans
28:14 - "The self-driving company"
30:34 - The way AI flows into companies
33:28 - What Steve Jobs knew before the iPad
35:59 - Killing the sacred cow
38:25 - The rest of the world is two years behind
41:15 - The compute brought on AI
43:46 - The person who assumes dramatic change

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@JacksonSteger @Replit @ns Thanks for having me!

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@y_tolep @monad @buildanythingso Nice to meet you

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

There are so many Linux zero-day vulnerabilities these days, but on Replit we’re able to avoid 96% of them with our custom Kernel build.

Read about our new sandbox design.

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Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing (SMFL) runs their business on Replit.

The Japanese-based company found that after using Replit, the development and testing period was reduced to one-third compared to the originally planned period.