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20Product: Replit CEO on Why Coding Models Are Plateauing | Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified: Will Incumbents Be Replaced? | Why IDEs Are Dead and Do PMs Survive the Next 3-5 Years with Amjad Masad

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4.4 β€’ 693 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Amjad Masad is the Co-Founder and CEO of Replit, one of the leading "vibe-coding" platforms. Under his leadership, Replit has raised a total of $922 million in funding, recently raising at a whopping $9 billion valuation. Replit has over 50 million registered users and is used by employees at 85% of Fortune 500 companies. Replit's revenue jumped from $10 million to $100 million in nine months, and the company is on track to reach $1BN in ARR by the end of 2026.

AGENDA:Β 

00:00 β€” Why Coding Models are Hitting a Performance Plateau

07:21 β€” Is Most of the Value of Replit Not Anthropic Model Quality?

10:04 β€” Why Did Replit Decide to Not Build Their Own Model, Like Cursor Did?

11:58 β€” Why Product Quality Must Always Beat Cost Optimization

14:51 β€” How Do Replit Choose Which Model To Route To For Different Tasks?

24:43 β€” The SaaS Apocalypse: Why it is Fair and Just?

29:55 β€” What Will the Cost of Tokens Be in 5 Years?

31:09 β€” Is Cursor Dead? Debunking the Twitter Narrative

33:36 β€” Are IDEs Dead?

35:54 β€” Should Students Still Study Computer Science?

42:47 β€” Are US Companies Using CCP Subsidised Open-Source Chinese Models

56:59 β€” What Do No Founders Know About True Product-Market Fit

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we're approaching a certain plateau in how good coding models could get.

0:04.9

Cost question is secondary to the performance question.

0:09.0

When you focus on cost is when you reach a certain asymptotic plateau in the S curve.

0:15.9

I think for all intents and purposes, IDEs are dead.

0:18.7

The name of the game is just staying one, two, three, four, ten steps ahead.

0:24.6

This is 20 Product, the monthly show where we sit down with the best product minds to unpack

0:29.1

the future of product, how the best product managers work, and what that looks like in a world

0:34.2

of AI.

0:35.2

We could not have a more relevant guest than Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO at Replit, joining us in the hot seat. The man is reshaping what it means to be a great product manager, what it means to be a great product leader, and Replit is one of the leading vibe coding tools alongside the likes of Lovable. This was an incredible discussion with Amjad, and I'm really excited for you to hear it. But before we dive into the show today, have you ever felt a little stuck at work? Maybe you're stuck in back-to-back meetings, stuck without clear feedback, we're trying to learn a new AI workflow. Well, now you can move work forward with Lume, the AI-first video platform from Atlassian. Use Loom to simultaneously record both your screen and yourself to share a quick update,

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