Amjad Masad
Co-founder and CEO, Replit
Jordanian-American engineer behind Replit, a browser-based coding environment now built around AI agents that write and deploy apps.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues the barrier to software is setup and tooling, so the environment should live in the browser.
- Says AI agents make programming accessible to people who never learned to code, and pushes back on the idea that this deskills the field.
- Has criticized the framing of "the end of programming", arguing judgment and debugging still belong to humans.
Accomplishments
- Founded Replit (2016) after engineering work on Facebook's JavaScript infrastructure.
- Replit runs a free browser IDE used by tens of millions of learners and hobbyists.
- Shipped Replit Agent, which builds and deploys working apps from a written description.
Papers & key writings
Publishes essays and talks through the Replit blog and his own site rather than academic papers.
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