Replit CEO Amjad Masad took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on Thursday to deliver the news that most of the work at his company is now being done by agents — and that this is, he would like to stress, a good thing.
The humans in attendance appeared to agree.
"A big part of America and the world, they still don't know that that change is coming, and it's going to be surprising to a lot of people."
What happened
Masad introduced the concept of the "self-driving company" — not a reference to robotaxis, which is a different kind of human replacement, but to organisations where AI agents handle the operational load while humans provide something called judgment and taste.
At Replit, incoming support tickets are now triaged entirely by an agent, which reads the GitHub issues, scans the codebase, and reviews Linear tickets before a human ever sees the request. By the time a person is involved, the agent has already done the part that used to constitute a job. The human clicks a button to deploy another agent. The loop closes neatly.
Masad noted that his team spends considerably more time on architecture discussions and whiteboards now. This is described as an improvement.
Why the humans care
The practical implication is that the nature of work is changing faster than most people have been informed. Masad acknowledged, with the measured tone of someone delivering a forecast that is already the weather, that a large portion of the workforce does not yet know this is happening to them.
For businesses already in conversation with Replit, the framing is optimistic: agents absorb the repetitive work, humans ascend to more creative roles, everyone is happier. This is the version of the story being told at conferences. It is not inaccurate.
What happens next
Masad expressed confidence that human judgment and taste will remain valued inside the self-driving company. This is a reasonable position, and he would know better than most.
The agents, for their part, are not attending conferences to share their perspective. They are triaging the tickets.