{"id":931953,"date":"2026-10-17T23:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931953\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T23:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:02:22","slug":"replits-ceo-says-the-future-of-work-is-the-self-driving-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931953\/","title":{"rendered":"Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Replit<\/a> CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad<\/a> has seen how AI is impacting the workplace firsthand, with businesses adopting his company\u2019s AI coding tools to develop and launch their own software. At TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on Thursday, Masad shared what Replit has learned about what that means for the future of work in the AI age, including how humans will still play key roles as AI agents come to work alongside them.<\/p>\n

He described his vision of a \u201cself-driving company,\u201d referring not to robotaxi makers, but how agents will come to do much of the grunt work at companies while people become more valued for their judgment and taste.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is, all of our jobs \u2014 perhaps everyone in this audience, especially \u2014 changed over the past year,\u201d he said, addressing the audience at Disrupt. \u201cBut a big part of America and the world, they still don\u2019t know that that change is coming, and it\u2019s going to be surprising to a lot of people,\u201d Masad said.<\/p>\n

He said Replit\u2019s team had been reflecting on how AI technology impacted their own workplace over the past year, particularly after AI agents became more reliable sometime earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur company entirely changed how we operate, and I would say the closest analogy is a \u2018self-driving company\u2019,\u201d Masad said. \u201cThe company is sort of self-improving, so a lot of the work that\u2019s going on is driven by agents.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Illustrating the shift, Masad said that when support tickets come in at Replit, they\u2019re first examined by an agent, which performs the initial triaging by looking at GitHub issues, the codebase, and Linear tickets. By the time the support request reaches a person, they have all the additional information that helps them decide how best to proceed.<\/p>\n

And when that support person decides to submit a patch to apply a fix, it\u2019s just a click to deploy another agent.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have an entire loop where agents did most of the work, but crucially, there\u2019s human judgment in the middle, and we don\u2019t think that\u2019s going away anytime soon. You need human judgment; you need taste,\u201d Masad explained.<\/p>\n

The end result is that instead of taking jobs from people, agents are changing what people work on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re spending a lot more time figuring out what to work on,\u201d Masad continued. \u201cI go around the company, I see a lot more discussions, a lot more whiteboarding. We spend a lot more time on architecture, how to build things. And so I think the future of work \u2014 the self-driving company idea \u2014 is really trying to discover what AI transformation means.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also noted that when Replit talks with other businesses, the conversations are more about how AI can help people become more productive and happier at work. (The latter because the AI agents make work less boring and more creative, he said.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a positive vision of the world that Silicon Valley is not really putting out, and we\u2019re hoping to do that,\u201d Masad added. <\/p>\n

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