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Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns (www.theregister.com)
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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.

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[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the enshittifcation in rapid form. Thankfully there are alternatives, and cheaper models are becoming more powerful.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yea just learn to code, anyone can do it.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] teft@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Can you read? If you answered yes then you can code. Maybe you can’t code well but anyone can code.