Does 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.
Is there any way that users will be able to tell the difference between this and GitHub's CoPilot?
Ghostwriter also includes 2 features that Copilot does not have: Transform Code (translate between langs/refactor code), Generate Code (prompt Ghostwriter to write full programs in one shot)
Plus, Ghostwriter is integrated with the Replit platform, meaning you get all the benefits Replit offers as a portable development environment you can take with you anywhere you go and host instantly.
Does 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.
https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/#how-did-repli... At the bottom of the original blog post. He put his project back online and it is still up: https://riju.codes/
Even if this was settled, I consider this quote when thinking about Amjad Masad (Replit CEO).
> When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
replit 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
replit 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
That's very impressive. Hats off to them! I dont think this is too out of the ordinary either though. I'd guess they started off with a LLM from hugging face, set up some pipeline to ingest code from replit repos to finetune the LLM. The ML aspect of this is not terribly hard given that they probably dont need to train a LLM from scratch. Figuring out how store and serve from replit repos (or publicly available code bases) is not too difficult. From there it's a matter of productionalizing: how to serve the model in real time, figuring out they want the product to look/feel like and I suppose this part of it might take a while. I'd estimate you'd need 1-2 ML engineers, 2 data engineers, 2-3 swes, 1 PM for the team for a minimal viable product.
Is there any way that users will be able to tell the difference between this and GitHub's CoPilot?
Ghostwriter also includes 2 features that Copilot does not have: Transform Code (translate between langs/refactor code), Generate Code (prompt Ghostwriter to write full programs in one shot) Plus, Ghostwriter is integrated with the Replit platform, meaning you get all the benefits Replit offers as a portable development environment you can take with you anywhere you go and host instantly.
One could argue Copilot can translate/refactor code.
I can't count the number of times I've copy pasted a chunk, commented it out, then put a comment describing what I'm after. Copilot will get it exactly right ~40% of the time, ~40% of the time it gives me a good starting place, and the other 20% I just scrap.