Replit CEO Says AI Makes All Software De Facto Open Source; Aakash Gupta Asks What Moats Remain
aakashgupta · x · 2026-10-27
Replit CEO Amjad Masad posted that AI-powered reverse engineering and decompilation is "absolutely insane," noting people are reverse engineering Adobe products and decompiling GTA V to run it on other devices. His post drew 1.33M views and the claim that "pretty soon all software will be de facto open-source. AI is coming for everything and everyone."
Aakash Gupta responds with a deep dive asking what moats are actually left in software, noting he rebuilt Linear's core from its public docs to test the idea, and lays out what to build instead. The piece also rounds up the week's AI news, including Meta releasing its first frontier model, Muse Wonder.
(The post includes a sponsored section for Amplitude Custom Agents.)
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