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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/~
Additional Reading:
https://www.turingpost.com/p/amjad
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
Turing Post is a newsletter about AI's past, present, and future. Publisher Ksenia Semenova explores how intelligent systems are built – and how they’re changing how we think, work, and live.
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By Turing PostWhat 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.
Did you like the video? You know what to do:
Subscribe to the channel.
Leave a comment if you have something to say.
Like it if you liked it.
That’s all.
Thanks.
Guest:
Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder at Replit
Website: https://replit.com/~
Additional Reading:
https://www.turingpost.com/p/amjad
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
Turing Post is a newsletter about AI's past, present, and future. Publisher Ksenia Semenova explores how intelligent systems are built – and how they’re changing how we think, work, and live.
Sign up: Turing Post: https://www.turingpost.com
FOLLOW US
Amjad: https://x.com/amasad
Replit: https://x.com/replit
Ksenia and Turing Post:
Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Kseniase
Turing Post: https://x.com/TheTuringPost
Ksenia: https://x.com/Kseniase_
Linkedin:
TuringPost: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theturingpost
Ksenia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ksenia-se