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Microsoft-Replit Partnership Democratizes 'Vibe Coding' for Business Users
Replit has entered a strategic, non-exclusive partnership with Microsoft, integrating its "vibe coding" platform deep into Azure Container Apps, Azure Virtual Machines and Neon Serverless Postgres, with sales available directly through the Azure Marketplace.
Vibe coding, a term coined earlier this year by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, is a byproduct of the AI-assisted, low-code/no-code development movement. The idea is to enable a developer to tell an AI, for instance GitHub Copilot, to build an application to their specification using just natural language -- no coding required.
Announced last week, the partnership aims to help business teams across sales, marketing, design and operations to build and launch production-grade software using plain English, minimizing IT bottlenecks.
Replit counts over 500,000 business customers, including companies like Zillow, that use it for prototyping and internal tool development. Although Replit will continue supporting Google Cloud, this Azure integration marks a major step in scaling AI-driven citizen development within corporate environments.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on July 14, 2025