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Amjad Masad (@amasad) says AI model suppliers may become their customers’ competitors. Replit is building a way around that risk. “There's like a risk that when you work closely with the foundation model companies is that they're going to move into your business.” “It's harder to partner with them because their ambition is such that they want to be, they want to subsume a big part of the economy.” “Replit is becoming more of an independence layer inside enterprises where we create a layer of indirection between you and the models and we get you the best token at the cheapest price.” “But also we also create an abstraction layer on top of the cloud as well.” - Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, in an a16z interview published October 3.

Replit CEO Amjad Masad (@amasad) built an email app with Replit, then stopped using it and had a coding agent work on Gmail directly. "We're thinking about what that does to our business because we famously make apps." "And I think increasingly we're starting to get our agents to solve the problem directly. So oftentimes you might put a prompt that's shaped like an app, but actually you want the agent to just do it." "Recently I built an app with Replit to kind of manage my email ... it's really hard to manage, especially with all the AI slop that people send me." "And I actually stopped using that app and I started using Replit directly to kind of write code against my Gmail and like do everything I need to do via the coding agent." - Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, on The Times Tech Podcast. Uploaded October 4, 2026. Replit sells the coding agent in this example.

Replit CEO Amjad Masad (@amasad) says friends told him someone left an AI agent running overnight and woke up to $10,000 of wasted tokens. "We've seen a lot of companies where CFOs and CTOs have gone publicly and said, we're just burning tokens for no reason." "Someone used $10,000 of tokens, and they had no idea because they put the agent to run and they went to sleep." "And the next day it was like $10,000 worth of tokens, just like in the garbage." "And so I think token capital needs to be managed very rationally." - Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, on The Times Tech Podcast. Uploaded October 4, 2026.