Replit's in-browser coding AI
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Replit's in-browser coding AI
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Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI
#2replit employee here. the team who built this is very small (less than a dozen, including non-eng roles for the go to market), and went from idea to general availability in 8 weeks
Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI
#3Does this differ from GitHub's CoPilot in any user-noticeable way? (outside of the platform it's available on)
Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI
#4Does this differ from GitHub's CoPilot in any user-noticeable way? (outside of the platform it's available on)
One thing I noticed is it seems to have an "Explain code" feature, giving you a textual explanation of a block of code you select, which I'm not aware of GitHub having.
Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI
#5Things I'd like to know about this tool:
- What areas/languages/tasks is it good at and what is it bad at?
- How often is it generating code with bugs?
- How often is the code that gets generated used as is vs immediately edited?
- What are the new frustrations that this causes that existing IDE code completion doesn't?
I work with trained models daily and I know that their failure cases are unintuitive, unexpected, and exasperating. I'd like to know as much about the failure cases of this model as possible before diving in.
Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI
#6Love using Replit but is there any way to try this before buying without having to wait weeks on a waitlist?
Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI
#7Things I'd like to know about this tool: - What areas/languages/tasks is it good at and what is it bad at? - How often is it generating code with bugs? - How often is the code that gets generated used as is vs immediately edited? - What are the new frustrations that this causes that existing IDE code completion doesn't? I work with trained models daily and I know that their failure cases are unintuitive, unexpected,…
Replit team member here:
- Ghostwriter is especially good at Python and JS, but supports up to 16 languages (to varying degrees of effectiveness) you can read more here: https://docs.replit.com/ghostwriter/faq#which-programming-la...
- As for tasks, it's great for reducing the amount of boilerplate code you need to write (Complete Code), writing React components (Complete + Generate Code), explaining code in plain English (Explain Code), translating code between languages (Transform Code), writing exhaustive tests (Complete Code)
- No stats on how often its generating code with bugs or how often the code gets generated used as is vs immediately edited, we're interested in getting both to help improve Ghostwriter
- Like any LLM, it can get stuck in a long-tail of repetitive loops; we're working pretty hard to improve and mitigate these issues, but, especially for new users, the repetition and hallucination type problems can be distracting.
Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI
#8Does anybody know the status of the legal action against that kid that supposedly stole all their good ideas and made a hobby project out of it? I would like to know how that resolved before I consider anything from this company again.
Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI
#9Things I'd like to know about this tool: - What areas/languages/tasks is it good at and what is it bad at? - How often is it generating code with bugs? - How often is the code that gets generated used as is vs immediately edited? - What are the new frustrations that this causes that existing IDE code completion doesn't? I work with trained models daily and I know that their failure cases are unintuitive, unexpected,…
Replit team member here: - Ghostwriter is especially good at Python and JS, but supports up to 16 languages (to varying degrees of effectiveness) you can read more here: https://docs.replit.com/ghostwriter/faq#which-programming-la... - As for tasks, it's great for reducing the amount of boilerplate code you need to write (Complete Code), writing React components (Complete + Generate Code), explaining code in plain En…
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Re: Replit's in-browser coding AI
#10replit employee here. the team who built this is very small (less than a dozen, including non-eng roles for the go to market), and went from idea to general availability in 8 weeks
any interns on that team who are going to get bullied by replits lawyers in the near future?