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Amjad Masad Stopped Teaching People to Code. Revenue Grew 50x.

“For nine years, Replit sold cloud coding tools to people writing software by hand. Amjad Masad had spent fifteen years on a personal mission to make programming easier to learn. In September 2024 he shipped something that quietly reversed that mission — an AI agent meant to write the software so users never have to learn to code at all. He called the reaction from his own community 'hugely controversial.' A year later, annualized revenue was more than 50 times bigger, and investors had tripled Replit's valuation to $9 billion in six months.

By Remarkable Magazine — September 17, 2026 — 5 min read

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