Replit Wants to Convince a Billion Future Developers That There’s No Need to Learn to Code

The debate over which AI coding tool is the best might as well have been over before it started. For the longest time, Replit has been the most loved developer tool, consistently ranking above Cursor, Windsurf, Lovable, and others.  Amjad Masad, the founder of Replit, is on a mission to convince a billion people that writing software doesn’t need to start with years of tutorials, syntax struggles, or late nights trying to fix semicolon errors. Instead, all one needs is an idea—and the ability to describe it in plain English.  Yet, he doesn’t call this process ‘vibe coding’ like others do. Notably, in a recent episode of Sequoia’s Training Data podcast, Masad said he doesn’t like the term.  “It just cheapens the possibilities,” he said. “You can b