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Subvolts take AI agents are turning everyday users into coders, expanding the developer market exponentially. Nov 28, 2025
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This interview offers a firsthand account of a significant shift in user acquisition and market expansion driven by AI agents.

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AI + a16z · Ep 68 Episode

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

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Summary

Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann discusses a surge in daily signups, with 96% of new users not directly using AI coding tools but discovering Netlify through ChatGPT. He explains how AI agents are expanding the developer market and changing software economics, enabling non-developers to ship production apps and prompting CEOs to code again.

Explained simply

AI tools like ChatGPT are helping people build websites without knowing how to code. This means many more people can now create and launch their own apps, changing who builds software and how it's done.

Why listen

This episode reveals how AI agents are dramatically expanding the potential user base for developer tools, moving beyond traditional developers to a much broader audience. It's for anyone interested in the democratization of software creation and the shifting economics of the tech industry. Listeners will understand how tools from companies like OpenAI are creating new markets and forcing established players like Netlify to adapt their products and strategies.

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  • Hosta16z
  • GuestMatt BiilmannCEO, Netlify
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Key facts
  • Guest: Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify
  • Show: AI + a16z
  • Length: 58 minutes
  • Daily Signups: 16,000
  • Non-AI Tool Users: 96%
  • Market Expansion: From 17 million JavaScript developers to 3 billion spreadsheet users
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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.

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Jargon decoded
AI Agents
Matt Biilmann
Software that can perform tasks autonomously using AI.
React
Matt Biilmann
A popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
LLMs
Matt Biilmann
Large Language Models, AI systems that understand and generate text, like ChatGPT.
Pull Requests
Matt Biilmann
A way to propose changes to code in a collaborative project.
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Show
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Length
58 min
Companies
OpenAI
Products
ChatGPT, React
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Questions people ask

What is driving Netlify's recent growth?
Netlify sees 16,000 daily signups, a fivefold increase, with 96% of new users discovering the platform indirectly through tools like ChatGPT.
How is AI changing the developer market?
AI agents are expanding the addressable market from millions of developers to billions of potential users, enabling non-developers to ship production applications.

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