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.
…Duh?
Did anyone not see this coming?
This is literally the most basic tech/corpo business strategy.
Have none of you vibe coders ever studied the history of the business of software developmemt?
Did you think primarily B2B services were… immune to enshittification?
I only know two vibe coders, but can confirm that they don’t know the history of the business of software development.
This is the enshittifcation in rapid form. Thankfully there are alternatives, and cheaper models are becoming more powerful.
Or you could actually learn how to code instead of finding a new umbillical cord to attach yourself to?
Bare minimum, run one locally, so you actually control it?
Yea just learn to code, anyone can do it.
Exactly, that’s the spirit!
Or, hire someone who can, if you can’t.
I believe the current meta in the software dev resume titles is ‘expert vibe code repair/cleanup’ or something like that.
I worked for MSFT and other companies, for years, doing data analysis and a lot of programming… and I am a self taught programmer, my degrees are more related to data analytics, I literally did just teach myself how to code.
If the actual problem is that HR has no fucking clue how to determine how to hire someone who actually knows how to code, can learn other languages on the job… or maybe execs… don’t wanna pay for that…
Then that is the actual problem.
Can you read? If you answered yes then you can code. Maybe you can’t code well but anyone can code.