"Not having a coding experience is becoming an advantage." Replit CEO Amjad Masad: "You don't need any development experience. You need grit. You need to be a fast learner." "If you're a good gamer, if you can jump in a game and figure it out really quickly, you're really... good at this." "Coders get lost in the details." "Product people, people who are focused on solving a problem, on making money, they're going to be focused on marketing, they're going to be focused on user interface, they're going to be focused on all the right things." "I think this year it's gonna flip, and I think not having a coding background is gonna be more advantageous for the entrepreneur." Amjad Masad withshow more

Inflate the non technical people’s ego and take their money 😂

You don't even need listen to what he's saying to know whatever it is is a grift. Appearance is everything

This is a majorly retarded take. If you haven't done things incorrectly, youll never know. All these normies are going to oneshot themselves on purpose and blame ai for listening to this shitty advice

"Not having a coding experience is becoming an advantage." lol this guy >people who have never built a car or engineered a skyscraper are ideal candidates to do so because they won't worry about the details Great logic brother, you're making a lot of sense here

A few years ago, this grifter was saying the opposite when promoting Replit. Ignore him and use Claude Code or Codex directly. Never lock yourself into a single platform.

"Coders get lost in the details." If you told me one year ago that this was going to be construed as a negative, I would have laughed at you.

Ok. Just fire all the coders and have execs who don’t know the first thing about how computers work vibe code everything. It will be very entertaining to watch. The world will run out of popcorn.

former codecademy dev telling us we dont need to know how to code 😭😭😭

Founders pitching A16Z

CEOs keep trying to create the slopocalypse

I mean yes the CEO of a company who benefits greatly this being true is likely to say this even if rage bait

This guy has consistently been an idiot for years now. Everything he has said in the past few years has been utter nonsense. He’s an actual moron, I have no idea why people listen to him… what an absolute bellend

The guy selling shovels is always the first to tell you there's gold everywhere

Guys totally clueless. Also building a vibe coding platform so bias in the extreme. Don't listen to him if you want to retain braincells

"Coders get lost in the details." Have you seen a non-coder vibe coding? They get lost in every other metric.

He sounds like sales mangers lacking technical skills.. They think they are the most important but they always come back to software engineers to do presentations.

Hard disagree. Intelligence is seeing more of the field at once. You need to see marketing and market fit but in order to build effectively you need to know why things fit together, what could fit, and what’s available to fit. You can’t abstract to one-shot builds.

To borrow @nntaleb 's aphorism, if someone dressed like this speaks anything about coding you completely ignore it and move on.

it's almost as if he's selling a product who's IPC is people who want to code things without knowing how to code

This is fucking retarded. If you've ever tried to code with AI you know you need to walk it through specifically how you want it to do anything or it will give you a pile of shit.

Bro...

Meanwhile, job openings ar Replit

we’ve already seen this pattern in no‑code and low‑code, business ops folks and PMs shipping internal tools faster than engineering because they understand the workflow and success metric deeply, then let automation handle the "plumbing". AI coding agents just push that trend to consumer grade scale.

The gamer analogy is so underrated. Pattern recognition, fast iteration, not being afraid to fail. Those instincts transfer everywhere.

Amjad should be legally liable for the inevitable catastrophes he's facilitating.

I'm sorry, but that's totally absurd & you should stop peddling this non sense @amasad Knowing to at least understand code is fundamental to building vibe coded products & sets the slop apart. Don't encourage slop & sell snake oil please.

Nobody in their right mind won’t start coding especially if they are an entrepreneur. You are approaching this wrong. Developers should be your main target.

LLM Labs are burning out developers with real skills, pushing them out of the industry. What will be left will be half-devs incapable of developing products without these tools. Thats how they'll own the market, push API costs up 10x and become deeply entrenched in the industry

coders focus on the details because that's where the devil is

Ah, coders get lost in details like security, app crashes, and users’ personal data ,That’s the problem with actual software engineers they are bit paranoid. Fair point though non-coders might succeed because those are big customers and can make them millions

He would say that tho wouldnt he? So would those VC folks who dont even know VBA tho wouldnt they??