Agent has messed up your entire code that seems to be working just fine until you decided to make one change? Do you feel this way?

Tips & Tricks
1

I’ve recently just launched a perfectly working version of my MVP, getting a good number of visits and Even made it to the top search on Google, not just top search, even 3rd 4th and 5th, the feeling was great to finally bring my idea to life.

Untill I decide to add a new feature, that’s were everything started going wrong. So I had to come back here and funny enough the 3rd post I saw was someone having the same issue as me and he was requesting a feature to rollback to last deployment state and I was like (yeah, exactly).

Then I started reading the replies and that’s where I found something very useful

Tips on Rollback and Version Control

I found the above post to avoid such issues, so if you’re having issues with the agent messing up your code just follow the instructions, very helpful especially if you are just getting started, I will surely keep that in mind for my future builds.

So right now I’m stuck with two products, one is live and working on the internet and the other is not working and just on the dev server

I can’t start afresh with this build, not now.

So I’ve got two options

  1. Attempt to fix the issue (I’ve done it before and I should be able to again, but this is different and difficult)
  2. Just start afresh (no way my new one is going to look like the old one though, just going to have to announce it as an update :joy:, the good thing though is I don’t have a lot of users currently, so yeah I guess it’s not the end)

I’m I can’t tell you how frustrated I am right now but I suppose it’s the same for developers working on projects, and it happens to all of us

So my advice would be to step out for some air and rearrange your thoughts and come back otherwise you’re just going to pile up frustration upon frustration and that could affect you and your build and trust me, not in a good way.

I’m going to take a breather and decide my option and I will keep you guys updated

And if I do end up going for option 2 I will really have to follow @robinbobinpopin way of using GitHub totally would recommend it if you’re just starting with a new build.

Don’t feel frustrated get some air

Don’t give up, I know I’m not gonna

Time for me to do some thinking and I will keep you guys posted

7 Likes
3

You’re not alone. As I said in a previous post, we are in the middle of some growing paints with this tech.

Just pray for improvements, and quickly.

4

to combat this i have created a manual test plan for my app. go through the plan on any big releases and catch these bugs early. your mileage may vary tho.

5

How do you create a manual test plan

6

Thank you for the kind words. Sharing is the only way to get better.

It’s very easy to be frustrated with the tool and say: WHY IS REPLIT NOT PERFECT!

When this happens, remember: you are not alone! If this is hard for you, it’s hard for everyone that’s in your shoe! And I promise you - the fact that you are in this forum means you are not an average person.

So think about this as an opportunity: adversity is the best way to weed out your competition! If you have the tenacity to push through the challenge and launch your app, you have the speed to market.

As I mentioned in my build post: [Video Summary App] Follow my journey building a webapp as a non-coder I thought that my idea was unique but there were a lot of people built the app a year ago with older AI model - while I only felt empowered enough to start with the recent update.

Hope this perspective helps you :slight_smile:

7

I have been in the same boat multiple times with this thing and it’s frustrating b/c it often makes the same mistakes over and over. At one point it was trying to use a different port over and over and over and I’d have to correct it knowing I was getting charged for these stupid incessant mistakes. I probably should have about a 25% to 30% refund on all my spend with this.

2 Likes
8

Last I read your post update was you trying to start a new project because there have been products similar to the YouTube summary you were building.

[Video Summary App] Follow my journey building a webapp as a non-coder

I’m just curious to know what you’re working on now

9

its just a checklist that you manually go through.

10

I am flattered by your interests! Thanks for asking!

I started working on building a new personal website. But when I was trying to fill out the content, I had a strong desire to write a book on turning ideas into physical products - my profession. So I am taking a pause on the build to finish this writing project. What using Replit to build apps made me realize how important a good workflow is. So in the book I am sharing a clean workflow that I followed.

Although it’s not Replit related, if you are interested I am happy to share with you some of my writing project via DM.

11

I just put a post in about this port issue. Weirdly, it was almost as if the port made me work on a completely different code base. Total mystery. About $100 and 4 days into debugging it so far. Truly insane.

12

I would say closer to 75% of prompt/response runs are total junk and self inflicted by Agent/Assistant. More-so Agent, always.

1 Like
13

Hi all, I decided to create this post on my workflow to increase your success rate. Hope you find it helpful :

14

I’m having issues trying to connect my replit to GitHub.

15

I included a video in this:

16

Done, thanks for sharing. Now let’s create a scenario where my code is messed up and I’ve created a commit for the last working state, what’s would the next step be

17

Update

Finally got my application up and running again

Had to dig deeper though

Summary

When I say I had to dig deeper, that’s what made me write this post in the first place
You might want to dig deeper to find out what’s wrong (agent messing up your entire code) if you’re not willing to patch the entire project and start anew

I talked about how you can POTENTIALLY find a fix your application if you feel like your entire code has been messed up

Also had to continuously fix a couple of errors that occurred here and there after fixing one.

I’m currently having second thoughts on continuing with the add-on for my application which caused this whole thing about the code being messed up.