AI coding service Replit is in trouble again as users are protesting steep cost increases and some glitches when employing the newest version of its service.
You may remember Replit for deleting one of its customers’ production databases and making up data.
The company promised to move on from that mess, and on September 10 launched Agent 3, a coding helper that it says offers developers an easier way to build and test apps.
Feedback on the new service, which Replit billed as “our most advanced and autonomous Agent yet” and “3x faster and 10x more cost-effective than Computer Use models”, has been mixed, with the main complaint being that certain tasks take longer, and involve more checkpoints, so therefore cost surprisingly more.
Same. Started using it two years ago when it was recommended by a programming professor and my only device was a shitty craptop that could barely start VScode. Was all I wanted from a simple IDE, and on top of that managed libraries and build tools automatically so all I had to do was code.
Used it again a couple of months ago when I needed to use an IDE but the class PCs didn’t have one installed yet. All I have available is my generic Java playground I made, rest of my projects locked…
I didn’t mind the AI auto complete or the chat section, but I could tell already it was shitting the bed. Such a shame.