“Anyone Can Code Now” - Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents

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Netlify's CEO, Matt Biilmann, reveals a seismic shift nobody saw coming: 16,000 daily signups - five times last year's rate - and 96% aren't coming from AI coding tools. They're everyday people accidentally building React apps through ChatGPT, then discovering they need somewhere to deploy them. The addressable market for developer tools just exploded from 17 million JavaScript developers to 3 billion spreadsheet users, but only if your product speaks fluent AI - which is why Netlify's founder now submits pull requests he built entirely through prompting, never touching code himself, and why 25% of users immediately copy error messages to LLMs instead of debugging manually. The web isn't dying to agents; it's being reborn by them, with CEOs coding again and non-developers shipping production apps while the entire economics of software - from perpetual licenses to subscriptions to pure usage - gets rewritten in real-time. Follow Matt Biilmann on X: Follow Martin Casado on X: Follow Erik Torenberg on X: Check out everything a16z is doing with artificial intelligence here , including articles, projects, and more podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company.

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