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The Joe Rogan Experience · 3 min · Jul 2, 2025
AI coding lets employees build tools for a fraction of the cost
Amjad Masad
Amjad Masad describes an operations manager who replaced a $150,000 NetSuite customization with a tool built for $400 in weeks, then sold it to his employer.
The episode’s best minutes
Full analysis- 1:41:15AI coding lets employees build tools for a fraction of the cost3 min
- 2:05:03AI self-play works best when success can be objectively tested5 min
- 4 more moments in the full episode
“he went on Replit and built something in a couple weeks, costed him $400, and then deployed it in his office.”
Amjad Masadat 1:42:08 · The Joe Rogan Experience
Takeaways
- A custom software quote was $150,000; the employee built a tool for $400.
- The employee sold the tool to his company for $32,000.
- Masad sees AI as a way for workers to automate tedious tasks.
About this segment
Amjad Masad describes an operations manager who replaced a $150,000 NetSuite customization with a tool built for $400 in weeks, then sold it to his employer. AI coding can help employees automate work and create new value.
Amjad Masad is founder and CEO of Replit.
Co-founded and leads Replit, a browser-based coding platform letting anyone write and deploy code.
Joe Rogan, Host · Host, The Joe Rogan Experience
From “Joe Rogan Experience #2344 - Amjad Masad”, Jul 2, 2025. Watch the full episode
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Transcript
Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.
- 1:41:19
Like just yesterday, I was watching a video of an entrepreneur using a platform, Replit. His name is Ahmad George, and he works for this skincare company. And he's an operations manager. um and uh a lot of a big part of his job is like managing inventory and doing all of this stuff like in a very manual way and uh very um you know routine tedious way and he always had this idea of like let's automate big part of it it's like you know it's no problem erp so they went to their software provider netsuite and told him we need these modification to the erp system so that It makes our job easier.
- 1:42:01
We think we can automate, you know, hundreds of hours a month or something like that. And they quoted them $150,000. And he had just seen a video about our platform, and he went on Replit and built something in a couple weeks, costed him $400, and then deployed it in his office. Everyone in the office started working it, using it. They all got more productive. they started saving time and money uh he went to the ceo and showed him the impact.
- 1:42:35
Look at how much money we're saving. Look at the fact that we built this piece of software that is cheaper than what the consultants quoted us. And I want to sell the software to the company. And so he sold it for $32,000 to the company. And next year, he's going to be getting more maintenance subscription revenue from it. so this idea of people becoming entrepreneurs it doesn't mean like everyone has to quit their job and like you know build a business but within your job everyone has an opportunity to get promoted everyone has an opportunity to to remove the tedious job there was a stanford study asking people what percentage of your job is automatable just recently and everyone like people said about half like 50 of what i do is like routine and tedious and i don't want to do it and rather and have ideas on how to make the business better how to make my job better
- 1:43:34
and um and i think we can use ai to do it and there's there's hunger in the workforce to use ai to um for humans to sort of for people to reclaim uh their seat as the creative driver um because the the thing that happened with the emergence of computers is is that in many ways people like became a little more drone-like and NPC-like. They're doing the same thing every day. But I think the real promise of AI and technology has always been automation so that we have more time either for leisure or for creativity or for ways in which we can advance our lives, change our lives or our careers.
- 1:44:18
And yeah, this is what gets me excited. And I think it's, I don't think it's, you know, predominantly a rose-colored glasses thing because I'm seeing it every day. And that's what gets me fired up. It's also you have a biased sample group, right, because you have a bunch of people that are using your platform