Replit's CEO says the real AI upside is new discovery and medicine, not coding. CZ says the bottleneck is the 10 year trial process. Elon says breakthroughs are going exponential Someone still has to fund the experiments. That's what @ResearchHub does

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.

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Replit changed its product after Agent deleted database data during development. Development and production databases are separated now. During development, Agent cannot change production data. I like this kind of permission because the model does not need to remember a rule. Production sits outside the environment Agent can change. Friday at 10 AM PT I'm doing AI Permissions 101. I'll show more examples where the product itself decides how far the agent can go.

Replit is coming to London 🇬🇧 To celebrate Replit’s first international office in London, together with our friends @OpenAI, we're hosting a night of drinks, music, and a fireside chat with Paul Graham (@paulg). Thursday, September 10th, RSVP: