Replit CEO envisions self-driving companies with AI agents handling operational work
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Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad described his vision of a “self-driving company” at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco: AI agents would handle much of the operational work, while people spend more time on decisions, architecture, creativity and judgment. Masad said the shift does not necessarily eliminate jobs, but changes the tasks employees perform.
At Replit, he said, agents initially triage support requests by checking GitHub issues, the codebase and Linear tickets. When an employee decides to apply a fix, another agent can be activated to deploy it. Masad said human judgment and “taste” remain essential; he added that the company now spends more time discussing what to build and how to build it, and sees agents as potentially making work less boring and more creative.
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Masad’s vision suggests that agents could reorganize operational work at software companies, shifting parts of triage and deployment to automated systems. At the same time, Replit’s described experience keeps human decisions, architecture and judgment at the center of the process.
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