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.