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Masad: Long-tail SaaS products will disappear due to AI software generation
“As, you know, non-professional software engineers are able to build their own software I think that the demand for the, you know, plethora of SaaS that we have today will also go down, and that will reduce, because you'll be able to generate software on the fl…”
Masad: Total software engineer headcount will stay roughly constant
“So I think I think the population of software engineering will probably be constant and not grow all that much.”
Masad predicts Replit will eventually reach one billion users
“Our vision, again, it's like, I think we're going to be able to get to, at some point, like a billion users.”
Masad: The tech bottleneck will shift from execution to ideas
“My Prediction, ah, is that the bottleneck will become on the idea side of things, which is counterintuitive because the Silicon Valley dogma is like, ideas don't matter, only execution. And maybe in the future, it'll be more like, execution doesn't matter, onl…”