Replit AI for All

Re:Replit AI for All by keb_ on Monday October 09, 2023 @09:13PM (#37827507)

Repl.it has really gone off the deep end. Ages ago, it was a nice quick site to quickly get in, test out some code, and get out. Now when I visit, it's just a big marketing splash page and a bunch of links. I don't even know how to open a basic Python REPL.

Also the CEO (Amjad Masad) bullied and threatened a college student working on open-source to shut down their project, and then continued to deny any wrongdoing on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

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Re:Replit AI for All by MuffinFlavored on Monday October 09, 2023 @09:26PM (#37827567)

> Also the CEO (Amjad Masad) bullied and threatened a college student working on open-source to shut down their project

Rewriting it:

> Also the CEO (Amjad Masad) bullied and threatened a college student (who had interned at repl.it previously and was familiar enough to be e-mailing the CEO back and forth) working on open-source (an open-source product very similar to repl.it) to shut down their project

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Re:Replit AI for All by eb2 on Monday October 09, 2023 @10:03PM (#37827787)

Saying his project is very similar to tell.it is like saying hackernews is very similar to Facebook because they both have text boxes and a reply button.

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Re:Replit AI for All by MuffinFlavored on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:15AM (#37832406)

tell.it? I thought the CEO told him to take down "Riju: fast online playground for every programming language"

https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/#what-was-my-o...

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Re:Replit AI for All by keb_ on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:22AM (#37832493)

It looks like an auto-correct typo (I believe they meant "repl.it")

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Re:Replit AI for All by keb_ on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:28AM (#37832574)

I'm not sure what your point is. Are you peeved because I left out some details?

You can read the thread I linked. Riju.codes is no more similar to Repl.it than any of the other hundreds of online multi-language REPLs. The argument that the Masad made (that Radon copied internal secrets from repl.it) were unfounded, and the numerous attempts from Radon to ask for clarification yielded silence from Masad.

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