Replit CEO: Sales engineers now doing what only top platform engineers could months ago
amasad · x · 2026-09-05
Replit CEO Amjad Masad says what's happening inside the company will "take the world by storm": sales engineers are doing work only the most unhinged platform engineers could have done a few months ago, while designers and PMs are shipping good PRs. He frames it as "the singularity is here, it's just not evenly distributed," highlighting how AI coding tools are dissolving traditional engineering role boundaries.
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