When Will We Stop Coding? A conversation with Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder @ Replit

What happens when the biggest advocate for coding literacy starts telling people not to learn to code? In this episode, Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder at Replit, joins me to talk about his controversial shift in thinking – from teaching millions how to code to building agents that do it for you. Are we entering a post-coding world? What even is programming when you're just texting with a machine?

We talk about Replit's evolving vision, how software agents are already powering real businesses, and why the next billion-dollar startups might be solo founders augmented by AI. Amjad also shares what still stands in the way of fully autonomous agents, how AGI fits into his long-term view, and why open source still matters in the age of AI.

Whether you're a developer, founder, or just AI-curious, this conversation will make you rethink what it means to “build software” in 2025.

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Guest:

Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder at Replit

Website: https://replit.com/~

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Chapters

00:00 Why Amjad changed his mind about coding

00:55 From code to agents: the next abstraction layer

02:05 Cognitive dissonance and the birth of Replit agents

03:38 Agent V3: toward fully autonomous software developers

04:51 Engineering platforms for long-running agents

05:30 Do agents actually work in 2025?

05:48 Real-world examples: Replit agents in action

06:36 Is Replit still a coding platform?

07:43 Why code generation beats no-code platforms

08:22 Can AI agents really create billionaires?

10:59 Every startup is now an AI startup

12:31 Solo founders and the rise of one-person AI companies

14:00 What Amjad thinks AGI really is

17:46 Replit as a habitat for AI

19:50 Open source tools vs internal no-code systems

21:02 Replit's evolving community vision

22:19 MCP vs A2A: who’s winning the protocol game

23:48 The books that shaped Amjad’s thinking about AI

25:47 What excites Amjad most about an AI-powered future

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