At TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad described his vision for the future of work, which he calls the ‘self-driving company.’ The phrase does not refer to robotaxi makers; instead, it describes a workplace where AI agents perform a large share of the grunt work while human employees focus on judgment and taste. Masad said all jobs, especially those of the audience, had changed over the past year, but much of America and the world still do not realize the change is coming.

Masad grounded the vision in Replit‘s own operations. After AI agents became more reliable earlier this year, his company changed how it operates. He used support tickets as an example: an agent first examines the ticket, performs initial triage by looking at GitHub issues, the codebase, and Linear tickets, and compiles additional context. By the time a person reviews it, they have the information needed to decide how to proceed. If the support person wants to submit a patch, a single click deploys another agent for the fix. The loop is mostly driven by agents, but human judgment remains in the middle. Masad said that is not going away soon; people still need judgment and taste.

The result, according to Masad, is not that agents take jobs but that they change what people work on. Employees at Replit spend more time deciding what to work on, with more whiteboarding and architecture discussions. He said the ‘self-driving company’ idea is an attempt to discover what AI transformation means. In conversations with other businesses, the focus is on how AI can make people more productive and happier, with AI agents making work less boring and more creative. Masad added that Silicon Valley is not really putting out a positive vision of the world, and Replit hopes to do so.