When Will Companies Run AI Agents as Digital Coworkers?

Amjad Masad says that by the middle of next year, companies will be comfortably running agents that do real work, and it will feel like having digital coworkers. Right now most agents run on employees' laptops. Very few companies outside tech use agents for real workflows.

New AI assistants push that along, because people who see what the tools can do will ask their companies to provide them. Consumer vibe coding is no longer a viable market. Replit made some money there, and he expected that market to fade, which is why Replit set out to charge businesses rather than consumers. There is now a plan he calls free or unlimited: subscribe for $20 and keep coding. Wider understanding of the tools should make company adoption faster, and that helps Replit.