Replit CEO responds that 'learning to code is a waste of time' as AI will generate all programming code



As AI has come to generate advanced code, the CEO of customer management software Salesforce has said , 'We're not going to hire any engineers this year because we've successfully implemented AI,' and the CEO of semiconductor giant NVIDIA has said , 'AI will write the code, so you don't need to learn programming anymore,' sparking controversy, while the AI tools themselves are advising users to learn programming. The CEO of Replit, a startup that has developed an AI that allows people with no knowledge to create apps by simply entering prompts, has joined the discussion among business leaders about the human skills that will be replaced by AI.

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'You don't need to learn to code anymore,' Replit CEO Amjad Massad said in a video for TBPN, a YouTube channel that hosts technology talk shows.



This statement was in response to the question, 'Do you think it's still worth learning to code?' Massad continued, 'As Dalio (Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei) said recently, all code will be generated by AI. In the optimization scenario that I envision, I think AI agents will continue to evolve more and more. In that case, the answer to the question, 'Is it worth learning to code?' is no, unlike before. I think learning to code is a waste of time.'

At an event held in mid-March, Amodei predicted that 'AI will be writing 90% of the code in the next three to six months, and in 12 months, almost all code may be generated by AI.' Massad's comment 'As Dalio said recently' was based on this.

Massad is not alone in his support of Amodei. Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu said, 'If you say that AI will write 90% of the code, I'll agree with you because 90% of the code that programmers write is boilerplate.'



While he said coding knowledge will no longer be necessary, Massad also stressed the need to keep learning. 'A year ago I might have said you should learn to code a little bit, now I might say you should learn how to think. Maybe how to break down a problem into smaller pieces or how to communicate clearly. Just like when you're interacting with humans, you need that knowledge to interact properly with machines,' he said.

Massad has been involved in promoting coding skills for many years through his career at coding courses such as Codecademy , and behind his half-denial of it was anguish. In a follow-up post on X (formerly Twitter), Massad wrote, 'It was hard to reach this conclusion. With my work in open source, Codecademy, and Replit, I have promoted learning to code more than anyone else. It's a big part of my life's work, so it's bittersweet.'

Massad's comments about learning to code have generated a lot of reaction, with one X user stating, 'At least for me, learning to code helps me understand what Massad is proposing. I understand that his message is meant to be cut, but I think the real lesson is not to get hung up on syntax.'



Another X user said, 'I strongly agree. It's not that engineering is obsolete, but rather that an engineering approach to problem solving is becoming even more important to get the most out of AI tools. It's just that the paradigm that's important for engineering is shifting from syntax and semantics to problem solving.' In response to this point, Massad praised, 'Bingo!'



On the other hand, some people said that the spread of AI has actually increased the importance of coding skills, saying, 'I may be in the minority, but I think learning to code is becoming more important. Only people who know how to code will be able to effectively supervise and guide agents in doing difficult work.' Others said that coding knowledge is still necessary to understand how AI works, because there is still much room for improvement in Replit's AI.

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