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Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’

Publisher description: Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future of “self-driving companies,” where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and people focus on higher-level decisions.

TechCrunch | Oct 16, 2026 | Sarah Perez

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Replit CEO and co-founder, Amjad Masad, has seen how AI is impacting the workplace first-hand, with businesses adopting his company’s 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. You need human judgment; you need taste,” Masad explained.

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