Replit's CEO says the future of work is the 'self-driving company'

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Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad described how his company now operates as a "self-driving company," with AI agents handling much of the routine work. He said Replit's internal operations changed significantly after agents became more reliable earlier this year. As an example, he explained that incoming support tickets are first triaged by an agent, which reviews GitHub issues, the codebase, and Linear tickets before a person takes over with the relevant context in hand. Deploying a fix can then be done by launching another agent with a single click. Masad emphasized that human judgment and taste remain central to this loop and are not going away. Rather than eliminating jobs, he argued, agents are reshaping what employees do, with staff spending more time on architecture, planning, and whiteboarding. He also said businesses Replit speaks with report that AI makes workers more productive and less bored, and he expressed hope of offering a positive vision of AI's impact on work.