Masad: The AI ecosystem will be driven by multiple specialized expert agents
Amjad Masad · The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator · Sep 12, 2025 · at 26:22
Replit CEO Amjad Masad answers an audience question at Y Combinator about whether AI will converge to a single master agent or a fragmented multi-agent system.
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“I think multiple agents. And the reason I think that's true is because let's, let's say I'm someone with true, unique, Domain expertise. Let's say I'm a lawyer who is top in the world at solving certain cases that, that are very rare. And so I have this domain expertise that I'm not going to share in the open source. I'm not going to sell to scale AI so that they can sell to open AI or Google, all those. I'm just going to keep this resource to myself. But the way I would monetize it, instead of myself going and selling my services directly, I would like imbue this knowledge into an agent that becomes this very specialized agent in this very specialized domain, and then I can scale myself. And so, so I think people will be building these agents to work on their behalf. And then there's going to be agents that, that go out there and assembles these teams of agents and then there's going to be obviously software development agents, and maybe there's, and maybe you're running all, all this through ChatGPT or whatever main interface you have, but I think it's going to be a multi-agent world with different contacts, similar to what we have in the world today.”
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