Replit CEO's 'Self-Driving Company': Agents as the Bureaucracy Layer
amasad · x · 2026-10-27
Replit CEO Amjad Masad published 'The Rise of the Self-Driving Company' and discussed it with Gagan Biyani, arguing agents will reshape how firms work.
- Framed via Coase's 1937 transaction-cost theory of the firm: past Silicon Valley experiments to reinvent organizations failed because it was a technology problem.
- Agents can act as the glue inside organizations, running bureaucracy invisibly in the background while people get true autonomy.
- Masad says he already runs Replit this way — 'eventually the company will run itself.'
- Biyani: it's all going to change much faster than you think.
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