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While at @Replit I spent 2025 watching over 40 million people build software from scratch, and it taught me that most businesses are wasting 80% of their team’s creative potential If you’ve ever had a "million-dollar idea" for a tool that could save your team hours, but you didn't know how to build it yourself, you need to see what we discovered this year → The data shows a massive shift in who is actually winning in the digital economy… and it’s not who you think. After analyzing a year of "vibe coding" (turning ideas into working apps just by describing them), I’ve realized that software is no longer a technical hurdle. It’s a thinking hurdle. Here are the 3 biggest insights I gained from watching what worked (and what failed) in 2025: 1. The "Wait-and-See" Strategy is Dead: Traditionally, 80% of an organization has to wait for the other 20% to build tools for them. We found that the most successful "Knowledge Workers" have stopped waiting and started self-serving their own internal solutions 2. Static Mockups Cause Rework: One of the biggest "productivity killers" we saw was relying on static designs and lengthy documentation. What actually works? Building a functional prototype in days—not years—to get real-world feedback immediately 3. 75% of the New "Builders" Aren't Technical: This was the most shocking fact. The majority of people creating high-value tools today are Sales leads, HR managers, and Business owners. They are using "Agentic" workflows to handle the technical "how" while they focus entirely on the "why" → But what didn't work this year? Expensive, generic SaaS tools that cost $11,000 per employee but often come with limitations or unused features The most successful teams we saw this year stopped trying to fit their problems into generic software and started building the software around their problems We just finished a deep-dive breakdown of our 2025 Year in Review, including the specific data points on how non-technical leaders are 10x-ing their output I’m linking our 2025 Recap below in the comments, Go Check It Out👇