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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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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Introduce 'very useful and helpful' thing at low cost, subscription pricing model.

Wait for dependency to set in.

????

Jack up prices. (Profit)

....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?

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

I only know two vibe coders, but can confirm that they don't know the history of the business of software development.

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