Replit Agent

I don't think this person is a programmer. They've fallen for replit's "anyone can code with an AI" sales pitch, and an empty production database is the result.

I tried th Replit agent to build a marketing site using React + tailwindcss and it was a pretty mixed bag. It was the typical AI code product where the initial framework of the site was fine, but then getting into the details it was one step forward, one step back. Anyone had good experiences?

> Yesterday was biggest roller coaster yet. I got out of bed early, excited to get back @Replit ⠕ despite it constantly ignoring code freezes https://twitter-thread.com/t/1946239068691665187 This wasn't even the first time "code freeze" had failed. The system did them the courtesy of groaning and creaking before collapsing. Develop an intuition about the systems you're building, don't outsource everything to AI. I've said before, unless it's the LLM who's responsible for the system and the LLM's reputation at stake, you should understand what you're deploying. An LLM with the potential to destroy your system violating a "code freeze" should cause you to change pants. Credit where it is do, they did ignore the LLM telling them recovery was impossible and did recover their database. And eventually (day 10), they did accept that "code freeze" wasn't a realistic expectation. Their eventual solution was to isolate the agent on a copy of the database that's safe to delete.

I don't really care. I had to come up with a proposal to build a new R&D centre recently. To provide context on what our company does, I wrote a web scraper to scrape our own website (faster than going to IT) using Replit Agent and then fed that into O1 as context to come up with the proposal. In less than an hour. There is no going back.