Masad: Laypersons will soon match senior Google software engineers via AI
Amjad Masad · Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding · Oct 23, 2025 · at 32:44
Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, speaks on The a16z Podcast about the rapid acceleration of AI coding tools.
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“I think that the lay person will be as good as a what a senior software engineer that works at Google is today. So I think that's happening very soon.”
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