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Can enterprise teams truly vibe code their way out of expensive SaaS contracts? Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad seems to think so, and the ambitious vision could mean “agents all the way down.”
Speaking at VB Transform on Tuesday, Masad touted how his startup’s agents could help a non-developer design and code a live polling app in a mere 15 minutes — using a written prompt to create databases, login authentication and even quality checks.
“This is sort of like an almost semi-autonomous agent,” Masad said. “You can watch it, you can also go get a coffee and it’ll send you a notification when it’s ready to show you the future.”
Scaling apps, sites and software without coding
A polling app might not seem all that necessarily for most enterprise teams. However, the process illustrates how quickly some platforms are allowing individuals and teams to quickly and cheaply build and scale various websites, apps and software in ways that could potentially cut timelines or even replace some outside vendors — all without knowing much or any code.
The road map for Replit includes building more APIs and abstractions of primitives that agents can use to quickly set up databases, payment processes, and other features. Masad also mentioned other updates for Replit v3, including a way for users to add generative models directly to their app and have agents autonomously run tests of AI-generated apps.
In recent months, vibe coding has become increasingly popular to help non-developers quickly design and code a new website, app, or agent from scratch using natural language prompts. Giants like Anthropic and Google have rolled out new tools, while startups like Anywhere, Genspark, and Lovable have raised new funding. (Just last month, Windsurf was reportedly in talks to be acquired by OpenAI.)
Replit is finding new ways of integrating with various enterprise-grade platforms to boost AI development. In February, Anthropic revealed that Replit was helping companies build with Claude on Google’s Vertex AI to support more than 100,000 applications with security and scalability. The growth of agentic coding might impact the value of creating apps, which Masad predicts could decline significantly and “perhaps to zero at some point.”
When asked if his company could actually replace enterprise-grade tools like configure-price-quote (CPQ) systems, Masad said “we’re seeing customers have three orders of magnitude of savings on apps.” He gave an anecdote about a Replit user that claimed to use the platform to make a working version for ERP automation for just $400 instead of the vendor’s quoted $150,000.
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