Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy.\u00a0Learn more<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Can enterprise teams truly vibe code their way out of expensive SaaS contracts? Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad seems to think so, and the ambitious vision could mean \u201cagents all the way down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking at VB Transform on Tuesday, Masad touted how his startup\u2019s agents could help a non-developer design and code a live polling app in a mere 15 minutes \u2014 using a written prompt to create databases, login authentication and even quality checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is sort of like an almost semi-autonomous agent,\u201d Masad said. \u201cYou can watch it, you can also go get a coffee and it\u2019ll send you a notification when it\u2019s ready to show you the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n>>See all our Transform 2025 coverage here<<<\/strong>\n\n\n A polling app might not seem all that necessarily for most enterprise teams. However, the process illustrates how quickly some platforms are allowing individuals and teams to quickly and cheaply build and scale various websites, apps and software in ways that could potentially cut timelines or even replace some outside vendors \u2014 all without knowing much or any code.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The road map for Replit includes building more APIs and abstractions of primitives that agents can use to quickly set up databases, payment processes, and other features. Masad also mentioned other updates for Replit v3, including a way for users to add generative models directly to their app and have agents autonomously run tests of AI-generated apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In recent months, vibe coding has become increasingly popular to help non-developers quickly design and code a new website, app, or agent from scratch using natural language prompts. Giants like Anthropic and\u00a0Google\u00a0have rolled out new tools, while startups like Anywhere,\u00a0Genspark,<\/span> and Lovable have raised new funding. (Just last month, Windsurf was reportedly in talks to be acquired by OpenAI.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Replit is finding new ways of integrating with various enterprise-grade platforms to boost AI development. In February, Anthropic revealed that Replit was helping companies build with Claude on Google\u2019s Vertex AI to support more than 100,000 applications with security and scalability. The growth of agentic coding might impact the value of creating apps, which Masad predicts could decline significantly and \u201cperhaps to zero at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n When asked if his company could actually replace enterprise-grade tools like configure-price-quote (CPQ) systems, Masad said \u201cwe\u2019re seeing customers have three orders of magnitude of savings on apps.\u201d He gave an anecdote about a Replit user that claimed to use the platform to make a working version for ERP automation for just $400 instead of the vendor\u2019s quoted $150,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen you think about what the software does, a lot of Replit users wake up in the morning, they have a problem in their minds, and they create an app to solve that problem,\u201d Masad said. \u201c\u2026The software agent will go and build software in order to solve that problem and we\u2019ll solve that problem for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the growing competition, Masad said some platforms like Claude Code and Cursor help novices, but he warned that AI-generated code without proper checks could lead to leaked data or API keys. Replit addresses that risk through its cloud-native design, sandboxing to test agents in an isolated environment, and finding and fixing various security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Masad, the point of differentiation is Replit\u2019s full stack nature and focus on creating an autonomous software engineer. He thinks it might go beyond making an app to solve problems if there are ways to have agents skip the intermediate step.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Masad sees Replit and other generative AI features helping to generate UI changes based on the form factor of any given device. When a VB Transform audience member asked where the internet is heading with the future of web pages and multimodal agents, Masad said he thinks there\u2019s a growing expectation of how the form factor of computing will change \u2014 which he noted could include various AI-enable wearables from OpenAI and Meta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another aspect that came up was the future of how junior engineers will become subject matter experts. One audience member asked how people will learn for themselves instead of blindly accepting an agent\u2019s code changes. Masad didn\u2019t give a direct response but instead said the platform can highlight any piece of code and provide an explanation. He said that leads to a question about the vision for AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think we\u2019re going to get to a point where you don\u2019t have to interface with the code,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be able to interact with software on a higher level of abstraction. We need something a little better than English \u2014 somewhere in between code and English \u2014 and maybe someone will build that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Replit has had renewed momentum since it laid off 30 staffers in May 2024 as part of an aggressive pivot. Now, a year later, Masad said the company has surpassed $100 million in ARR \u2014 up tenfold since the end of 2024. In a Tuesday interview with TBPN, he noted that people are using Replit to create multiple agents to help with a single project.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe buzzword used to be the 10x engineer,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026You\u2019re really just one person. You\u2019re a team of engineers. I think every engineer is sort of a manager right now, so we\u2019re not at 1,000x yet, but we\u2019re going up.\u201d<\/p>\n Daily insights on business use cases with VB Daily<\/strong><\/p>\n If you want to impress your boss, VB Daily has you covered. 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