Replit CEO Amjad Masad says company no longer working with Anthropic

Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and addressed his company’s relationship with Anthropic, one of the most important supplier ties in AI coding. Replit has not publicly announced any termination of that collaboration. What Masad did make clear is that Replit does not intend to bet the company on any single model provider. That matters, because the labs supplying the models are increasingly becoming the competition. The self-driving company pitch Masad spoke at Disrupt, which ran October 15–16, 2026. He used the appearance to lay out what he calls the “self-driving company.” The idea is simple to describe and harder to execute. AI agents handle the repetitive first pass on operational work, and people step in where judgment is required. Support tickets are his showcase example. At Replit, AI agents now perform the initial triage on incoming tickets, digging through GitHub, the company’s codebases and Linear before a human ever looks at the issue. Replit has run this model internally since early 2026. Masad framed it as a shift in how work gets divided, with employees freed up for strategic decisions rather than sorting through queues. Th...