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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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It's ridiculous to frame an opinion that's extremely common and popular as some kind of expression of rebellion against "the man". What a puff-piece.

Two people got black bagged by the federal government less than a year ago for expressing this opinion

And the FBI has a wrongthink list for this opinion filed under anti semitism / domestic terrorism now.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Completely agree with you on this. It will be an unfortunate exercise for future historians to look back on this time, crunch through the enormous amount of data with their quantum computers, and end up realizing just how many people were willing to condone the slaughter of innocent civilians.

Only one side stormed through civilian areas killing everyone they met, and it wasn't the Israelis.

In my reply above, I evoked the memory of Jeanette Rankin, who was the lone dissenting vote against the Pacific War after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (somewhat analogous to the October 7th attack).

It is a natural human tendency to desire that the people who inflict pain upon others to also feel pain inflicted upon them. This has been the human condition since ancient times, and yet the most revered figures in human history have been the pacifists who consistently advocate against violence (e.g. Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, Lao Tzu, Gandhi, MLK, etc).

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Public opinion on Amjad shifted quite a bit in 2021 when he threatened to sue a former intern for his open-source project. https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/

Definitely was the end of Replit for me. I have that open source project (Riju) bookmarked though and use it from time to time.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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replit is actually quite popular among teenagers and basically third world youngsters trying to spin off a service or a "product" of their own. - i mean yes u cannot make money out of teenagers but damn replit's Vibe coding tool is fucking good. Better than Lovable or Bolt any day. just to give u a perspective from a 20year old kid from a 3rd world county

Why don't you just use Claude? I don't get all these vibe coding tools when Claude is better than any of them

Because i can do it on the phone.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the immortal words of Peter Stormare in the VW ad, "what does this do??"

Well, at some point in time, his workflow produces a landing page where you can express interest in funding his projects

My momma always told me I'd be criticized by people who never build anything :)

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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A friend used Replit to prove out a startup (it worked) and what worked for him is that Replit has a whole platform integrated with their coding assistant that include hosting and backend runtimes. So his cycle time of vibe-deploy-test was very short and very simple for someone non-technical. No need to think about how/where to deploy, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), etc. Just vibe and deploy. (He did end up movin…

> (He did end up moving off the platform once he had enough validation) I'm really curious what this looks like in practice? Like can you just download the whole codebase, throw it against a Supabase Postgres DB, and you're off running? What about any backing services or microservices? Is it tied to any thing like lambdas etc.

I should be clear here that "moving off the platform" involved a re-write for various reasons. First and foremost was that the LLM generated code was in a bad state due to the fact that he started in late 2024 when coding agents weren't really quite there yet and he had accumulated a LOT of tech debt very quickly. But Replit allowed him to validate the business viability first with some absolutely trash tier code (hacked 3x; one time where the hacker event sent an email to all customers).

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Replit with vercel starter templates and supabase is amazing. I even have it do all my migrations and RLS policies. Also playwright automated testing in github action CI/CD. I have it originated from a master prompt project I have architected with shadcn suggestions and how I like my app router setup. I'm hooking this up to comet to be fully agentic with Linear tasks and human-in-the-loop approvals with up to 5 UI ve…

In the immortal words of Peter Stormare in the VW ad, "what does this do??"

The bane of intelligence is contempt instead of curiosity
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