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Tasos Valtinos

Replit's AI Agent Website Builder - Honest Review

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The Agent is good, if you want to build something insanely basic. Like an EdTech landing page, or an one pager for validating an idea. For anything else, which is probably what everyone needs is super buggy. I tried to build an AI Agent that manages private keys and signs transactions for users. Replit for some reason created an app with the following things 1. Page to login/register 2. Page to generate my Keys 3. An OpenAI integration where I ask where should I store my keys and gives me an answer LOLOLOL . AI Replacing developers? NOT THERE YET.

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steve beyatte
As a v1, I think the @Replit agent is one of the most impressive things in AI today. I agree that it gets confused with more complex tasks but I think in a few years (or sooner), it's going to be able to handle a surprising amount of tasks.
Tasos Valtinos
@replit @steveb yeah totally agree. In a few years. And yeah it is a very well written software dont get me wrong. Is just, not the best thing, to see the whole world going bananas for software that will "might be good in a few years." We need to focus on current problems. But anyway, im biased as im a crypto entrepreneur. PTSD due to the lack of good solutions lol. we have a lot of stuff to build.
Shivam Singh
wowww! I wasn't aware that replit has an AI agent to build website. Def gonna try it out. Many thanks for starting this dicussion :)
Tasos Valtinos
@whatshivamdo yeah it is super new. they launched it for free recently. Before it was paid, an agent to kick off a repo, but now is a website builder one. At least it tries to lol
Rajiv Ayyangar

Just like actually coding, using Replit can take a wrong turn and end up feeling like banging your head against a wall. I burned through a bunch of checkpoints trying to get a simple button (kept seeing a blank screen), and eventually started over and it just worked. The promise here is incredible - I think in a few months even, many non-coders will be able to create pretty robust applications.

With greater power comes greater imagination...I think we might see an explosion of consumer app creativity as people build apps for themselves and a rare few take off.

Tasos Valtinos
@rajiv_ayyangar I totally agree. I think the great use case here is for the non-coders, and for the coders who want fast boilerplate and then go crazy. I used v0.dev from Vercel today and In like 30 seconds i got a nextJS dashboard with responsive UI in a second to use as a base for my new project.
steve beyatte

There must be great examples of Replit agent building simple stuff, can anyone share any?

Shane Pollard
I agree that it is not there yet, but that could change 3 months from now. I see replit ship changes FAST. Those guys move at pace. I like the simplicity of UI its familiar. The opportunity for everyone to build something just got easier.