Replit CEO: AI has sounded the death knell for SaaS, the next "Satoshi Nakamoto" is on the way.

Replit CEO predicts that AI agents will bring software development costs close to zero, ending the SaaS era. Their strategy is to create the perfect AI "habitat," empowering everyone to become the next "Satoshi Nakamoto." (Background: China opens a completely robot-operated grocery store; is it sci-fi becoming reality or just a gimmick?) (Additional context: Bill Gates: AI will replace humans within 10 years, working two days a week is not a dream, three professions may survive.) In mid-September, Replit CEO Amjad Masad delivered a speech at Y Combinator. He opened with a classic metaphor: "Back then, we transitioned from mainframes that only a few experts could use to the era of personal computers accessible to everyone. Now, software development must also complete this last mile." And the "personal computer" he refers to is the AI agent. He then threw out the most core prediction: the development costs of all SaaS applications will soon drop to zero. "SaaS is dead": a shockwave from YC. This sounds crazy, but it is not empty talk. Masad cited academic assessments like SWE-Bench, showing that AI's ability to solve real-world programming problems is growing exponentially. He even addressed the entrepreneurs in the audience: "We must get used to building some products that look terrible today, because two months later, when the underlying model upgrades, your product might suddenly become amazing." This wave is coming quickly and fiercely. He also shared what Replit is actually doing. Don't think they are just an "online coding tool"; that is just the surface. What they are really doing is building a "digital Jurassic Park." Raising dinosaurs is not hard; creating the jungle is the hard truth. Masad's original words were: "The AI model for writing code is the easy part; the hard part is its surrounding habitat." You see, everyone is competing to see whose AI model is bigger and smarter, like a competition to see who can breed the fiercest T-Rex. But Masad believes that having dinosaurs alone is useless; you need to give them a perfect island, a perfect jungle, so they can survive, hunt, and reproduce… and what Replit is doing is building that island. What does this "habitat" contain? Masad listed one by one: secure cloud sandboxes, one-click authentication, databases, deployment, key management… all the annoying tasks that human engineers find troublesome, Replit wants to help AI handle. He even envisioned a crazier future: "Imagine your AI agent has its own credit card; it can sign up for Twilio services to send text messages, and even hire a human online to help solve verification codes when needed." The five evolutionary levels of AI. It can be said that this is no longer just a tool; this is creating a new species with autonomy. Masad even drew an evolutionary blueprint, like the levels of autonomous driving from L1 to L5: L1 is the syntax prompts you are already used to. L2 is code completion like GitHub Copilot. L3.5 is the current Replit Agent, which can run for 10-15 minutes but still needs you to check if the results are correct. L4/L5 are the ultimate goals: "You can deploy thousands of agents at once to solve problems and trust that 95% of them will succeed perfectly." "Satoshi Nakamoto" mass production plan? Well, the park is built, the dinosaurs are raised, what’s next? The most exciting part of the speech was when he quoted an old book from the 1980s called "The Sovereign Individual," which states: "In the future, the greatest source of wealth will be the ideas in your mind. Anyone who can think clearly has the potential to become wealthy." Masad said that everything predicted in this book is about to be realized. And the best proof is "Satoshi Nakamoto." A mysterious person created a trillion-dollar economy with just a paper and a piece of code. This phenomenon of a single person being an entire economy will become increasingly common in the future. Replit’s ambition is to enable the next "Satoshi Nakamoto" to be replicated massively. He immediately gave an example from his own company; they have an HR who cannot code at all. Since she couldn't find a user-friendly organizational chart software, she simply had the AI agent create one. In three days, she produced a fully functional, customized product that could interface with the company’s internal system. If it were outsourced or purchased off the shelf, it would cost at least tens of thousands of dollars over a year. Welcome to the "Project Era": calling a developer is like calling Uber. Now, amplify this story by ten thousand times. When anyone in your company can "grow" their required software within a few days, what can traditional SaaS companies still sell? This is not just a reshuffle of the software industry; even our way of working will be completely overturned. Masad said that future companies will become "more like an open-source project rather than a traditional hierarchical pyramid." Your job title is no longer important; your mission is to "make the company successful." Finding help will also become super easy, just like "calling Uber today, pressing a button on your phone, and a developer (whether human or AI) will come." In short, Replit is building the gates of Jurassic Park. A brand new, incredibly powerful species is about to rush into our world. The only question is: in this great reshuffle, are you the hunter or the prey? Related reports: 0G listing on Binance rises over 500%: Dual-track strategy to build next-generation decentralized AI infrastructure. Who can immediately power AI? Bitcoin mining companies are an underestimated energy goldmine. Stablecoin dedicated chain Stable announces investment from PayPal: Stablechain will integrate PYUSD, expanding application scenarios. <Replit CEO: AI has sounded the death knell for SaaS, the next "Satoshi Nakamoto" is on the way> This article was first published in BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain news media.