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Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad made the comments during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future of “self-driving companies,” where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and people focus on higher-level decisions.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an "academy" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The "Horowitz Andreessen Academy" will launch with 10 partners, including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe, along with $42 million in funding led by a16z. While billed as a "highly selective school," it does not grant any degree or accreditation. Instead, students will attend short classes led by tech figureheads, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as "co-ops" that give students ro...

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit's role in developing it.

Replit launches Free Mode with GPT-5.6 Luna, allowing free software creation without token limits.

AI models are now capable and affordable enough to make once-unreachable outcomes practical. The opportunity for everyone to pursue and collaborate on ambitious ideas, spend less time on busywork, and raise the quality and creative output across disciplines is nearly here. The possibility is here. But for most people, the reality is not. Replit users are already building million-dollar businesses, replacing legacy software and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars, and increasing their everyday potential by creating high-quality software, designs, slides, and more.

The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for more than a decade.

The industrial space on the Lower East Side was completely transformed. Raw concrete and exposed beams were saturated with vibrant color and pulsing lights, while deep house grooves thumped through the room. Orange bean bags dotted the floor, installations glowed in every corner, and the whole place felt alive with that unmistakable opening-night rush. Artists, filmmakers, designers, musicians, founders, and engineers descended for two days. And the crowd was the act. All around the room, people were vibe coding ideas into real things you could hold, wear, and walk out the door with. At Tigri...

Replit is now available directly inside Claude, making it easier than ever to go from a conversation to a fully built, shipped product - without losing context, in one seamless workflow. Design in Claude, Build in Replit You can now design on-brand, beautiful apps in Claude Design using natural language. Once your design is ready, send it directly to Replit to continue building, refining, and shipping your app—all through natural language and in one seamless workflow. No copy-pasting, no context switching, no friction. Delegate Any Task to Replit

Visa said that over 1,000 employees has been using Replit for prototyping and development

At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to be acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, is Replit also bound to sell?

Defense in Depth: How Replit Secures Every Layer of the Vibe Coding Stack Vibe coding is changing how software gets built. But as AI agents write more of our code, the question security teams are asking has shifted from "Can AI build this?" to "Can I trust what AI builds?". At Replit, we believe the answer has to be yes, not through blind faith, but through architecture. Every layer of the Replit infrastructure where customer code runs, from the development sandbox to the production deployment, is designed with defense in depth. The Replit platform itself, our control plane, is also implement...

This is part 5 of a 6-part series we’re running about how product managers are using AI tools and vibe coding. Written by and for product managers. Summary Product managers spend as much time launching a feature as building it, across disconnected tools. Every tool switch adds hidden costs: reformatting time, mismatched design tokens, lost context, and delayed alignment. Replit Agent 4 generates stakeholder decks, live dashboards, and animations directly from your existing project.

This is part 4 of a 6-part series we’re running about how product managers are using AI tools and vibe coding. Written by and for product managers. Summary Requirements docs, decks, and tickets go stale because PMs update them by hand. Agentic workflows fix the source of that problem, not the symptoms. When the prototype is the source of truth, the artifacts around it — briefs, criteria, decks — update as the product changes, not after. Replit Agent 4 runs tasks in parallel and surfaces results for PM review before anything touches the main project.

Summary Manny (from Replit), and Cong & Denis (from Databricks) walked through our new Replit–Databricks connector, showing how we vibe coded enterprise data apps live. Databricks centralized enterprise data and AI for tens of thousands of customers, so our Replit apps could tap governed tables, models, and warehouses without copying sensitive data around. We used Replit’s Databricks connector to pull real sample datasets into an app, then let the agent vibe code a 3D weather globe that stayed safely inside Databricks. Replit Agent handled the scaffolding and UI while Databricks handled scale...

Summary Build and launch in one place with Replit Animation, bringing motion-style videos into the same workspace where you ship your app. See how an internal design hack became a product, as Samuel's design experiment turned into a Fast Mode launch video that went viral. Join a growing mobile-first community, with more than 1,800 builders from the mobile buildathon feeding into a new server and ambassador program. Watch launch videos come together live, as Manny builds a Snap Circuits promo using prompts, assets, and the animation build type in Replit.

Summary Snowflake’s Vino Duraisamy and Replit’s Manny Bernabe return to turn simple dashboards into working data tools. Live forecasting and drilldowns explain why metrics move, not just what changed on your Snowflake dashboard. Custom Slack alerts fire when revenue crosses key thresholds so teams catch spikes, drops, and odd days quickly. An embedded AI data assistant answers plain-English questions and shows the exact SQL it ran for every query. Replit handles security scanning, auth, and hosting so you can ship Snowflake-powered data apps in minutes.

Summary Snowflake developer advocate Vino Duraisamy joins Replit Community Manager Manny Bernabe for another informative live webinar. Replit's Snowflake connector enables builders to vibe code custom data applications without writing code manually. The connector provides secure, read-only access to Snowflake databases, eliminating complex authentication and setup processes. Builders can iterate on dashboards and reports using natural language prompts in plan and build modes. Publishing production-ready apps takes minutes with built-in security scanning, authentication, and deployment feature...

Summary RevOps professionals are using Replit to build custom micro tools that solve niche workflow problems without technical backgrounds. Teams save 90% of their time by automating tedious processes like mock data generation, CSV enrichment, and HubSpot syncing. Sales teams use AI-powered training simulators to practice cold calls and discovery calls, reducing ramp time from months to weeks. Vibe coding eliminates dependency on engineering resources, allowing go-to-market teams to iterate on solutions in hours instead of months. Building custom tools is becoming a core competency across sal...

Another barrier between idea and application has just disappeared. You can now build apps inside ChatGPT with Replit. Connect Replit to your ChatGPT account and turn conversations into working software. No tabs to switch. No code to write. Just describe what you want. What's New ChatGPT can now create, update, and deploy Replit Apps directly in your chat. Tag @replit in any message, describe your app, and watch Agent build it while you wait. The preview shows up right in the conversation. Make changes by typing what you want:

Replit Launches “Vibe Coding 101,” a New Beginner-Friendly Course with Campus.edu Replit and Campus are teaming up to launch Vibe Coding 101—a fresh, beginner-friendly course designed to take anyone from idea to fully built product, no technical background required. Registration is finally open, seats are limited, and the first cohort kicks off this January! Check it out now at campus.edu/vibe-coding Vibe Coding 101 is an immersive 8-week live online program that teaches students how to design, build, and deploy real apps using AI tools. Led by Campus’s world-class faculty, who also teach at ...

Getting started with AI should feel magical. But until now, building with AI meant jumping through hoops: creating developer accounts, hunting down API keys, reading docs, and spending 10+ minutes just getting set up. That ends today. Introducing Replit AI Integrations Replit AI Integrations make it effortless to build AI apps right inside Replit- no setup, no API keys, no extra accounts. Just instant access to 300+ top AI models - all from one place. We’ve done all the hard work so you can focus on what matters most: building something amazing. One Platform. Every Model You Need.

We are excited to announce Plan Mode, a new way to collaborate with Replit Agent. This mode provides a dedicated space for ideation, task outlining, and strategic discussions—all without initiating any changes to your codebase. The default mode is now referred to as Build mode. Key benefits Plan Mode allows you to: Brainstorm ideas and explore different approaches to your project

We are excited to announce the most comprehensive Design Support for Replit built Apps—setting a new standard for AI app building. With this release, your Replit apps can consistently look and feel like they were built in-house by your designers, following your company’s brand and design guidelines—without the tedious work of editing every component manually. What’s New Create new Themes for your Apps (Available to all users) Themes let you manage colors, fonts, and UI properties across your entire app with a single update. Instead of tweaking styles one by one, you can now: Create and apply ...

We are excited to share that we have recently launched a series of features that demonstrate our continued commitment to making Replit the safest place for Vibe Coding for everyone. Here is a recap of key features that exist today (and what’s launching soon) to ensure our users have a safe vibe coding experience: Checkpoints & rollbacks Replit has a checkpoint and rollback system that provides comprehensive version control and state management for users’ entire development environment. When you use Replit Agent, checkpoints automatically capture your complete project state. This includes not ...

Until now, Replit apps used a single database for both development and live customer data, making it challenging to safely test and deploy updates. We're excited to announce the launch of separate development and production databases for Replit apps, making it safer to vibe code with Replit. Users can now iterate with their app using a development database, while storing live customer data in their production Database. Starting today, we’re rolling out this feature in Beta for new Replit apps — gradually reaching all Replit users and apps over the next few weeks. With this update, Replit apps...

We’re beefing up security. We’re launching the world’s best vibe coding history feature. And for those of you bringing Replit to work, we’re improving our Enterprise readiness. Vibe coding makes software creation accessible to everyone, entirely through natural language. Whether it’s personal software for yourself and family, a new business coming to life, or internal tools at your workplace, Replit is the best place for anybody to build. AI coding is powerful but can be nerve wracking if you're building something for the first time. Is my user information safe? Is my API key exposed? Will my...

Nothing is more exciting than realizing your vision. Nothing is worse than realizing you had a major security flaw. The good news? While security is crucial, it doesn't have to be an obstacle, especially when you're building on Replit. We integrate many security features directly into the platform, and our AI tools can handle much of the heavy lifting, letting you focus on building. This post is your practical guide to navigating security essentials. We'll walk through the key fundamentals to secure vibe coding, provide a security checklis, and give 16 practical tips for how you can vibe code...

From idea to app, fast. That's always been our mission at Replit. But what if you could turn your ideas into working apps without knowing how to code at all? Enter vibe coding: a term that's democratizing app creation for everyone, regardless of technical background. What is vibe coding? Vibe coding is a way of building software where you describe what you want in plain language and an AI agent writes the code. You steer the work by trying what it builds and asking for changes, instead of writing every line yourself. The term comes from a February 2025 post by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy. T...

"Can everyone really code with AI?" I hear this question all the time. Usually after someone sees a viral post about an AI-built app and thinks "I could do that too!" But here's what those posts don't tell you: most AI-generated apps are just pretty shells—nice looking websites that lack functionality. Why? Most AI coding assistants build with JavaScript and are optimized for presenting information to the user (frontend development). These apps lack the backends and services that power functional applications. JavaScript is great. It creates beautiful frontends—Replit’s AI tools use it well. ...