Masad: Traditional IDEs have no future and are effectively dead
Amjad Masad · Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Apr 25, 2026 · at 30:30
Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of AI development platform Replit. He discusses the decline of traditional software development environments in the era of AI-generated code.
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“I think for all intents and purposes, IDEs are dead. I think the, you know, the limp along because again, some engineers just love that, that control, but there's no future in them and that there's no one's going to be asking for like the latest feature of like IntelliSense or like what were IDEs?”
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