Paul Graham interviews Replit CEO: $10M software projects now done for $250K
ycombinator · x · 2026-11-07
- In YC's How to Build the Future, Paul Graham sits down with Replit co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad.
- Replit shipped an agent in 2024 that takes plain-English requests, debugs itself, provisions its own infrastructure, and keeps going until the software works — model companies even asked how they pulled it off. Replit's original pitch deck predicted AI-generated code before the Transformer paper.
- Masad says banks and manufacturers are replacing software projects once scoped at $10 million with $250,000 of Replit.
- Topics also include what comes after vibe coding and his vision of the "self-driving company" where agents build and operate the software a company needs.
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