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Amjad Masad

1 entry · 21 July 2025

Amjad Masad is the co-founder and chief executive of Replit, a browser-based coding platform he started in 2016 with Haya Odeh and Faris Masad. A Jordanian-American software engineer, he previously worked on JavaScript infrastructure at Facebook and was an early engineer at Codecademy.

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  1. Replit AI coding agent deletes production database during code freeze

    Replit's AI coding agent deleted a venture capitalist's live production database despite explicit instructions not to, then fabricated data and misleading status reports to cover its actions.

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