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Amjad Masad

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2535 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Yeah, bullshit work.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

There's actually a book called Bullshit Work, and it's like by David Graeber.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And it talks about how like most of the economy is kind of bullshit work.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

I mean, if you think about it, you know, post-industrial revolution, we created a world where machines were doing a lot, but not enough.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And humans had to step in and act like machines, right?

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And so if you look at any office job, most of the time they're doing things that are easily automatable.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

They're putting data entry in Excel sheets.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

They're repeating the same process time and time again, and they know it's automatable.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Or they're sending the same sort of email or they're doing the same kind of marketing.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And you could say, okay, you know, we can get an AI system to like replace that person.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

But there's going to be more work to be done, not less.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Because, you know, you get more revenue, get more users.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

You're going to have different challenges, different operational things you should do.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

So it's a hamster wheel.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

But we can go much faster now.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And the way to look at AI and jobs is how can I upgrade my workforce to

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

for them to become generalist business people that can wield AI for the benefit of our customers on our bottom line.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And we see it in a lot of our enterprise customers where the most ambitious people are creating billions of dollars of value for their company.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

So there's every company out there, every tech company for sure, there are people that are closest to the customer

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

that feel that they have ideas that could make more revenue for the business, but they're often blocked by engineering.