Hi Replit Team,
I’ve been using Replit for years and loved how it was a community-first platform where people could share projects, experiment freely, and learn from one another. Lately, it feels like the focus has shifted to AI-first and monetization-first, which has made it harder to explore, code manually, or see what others are creating.
I strongly believe Replit would be at its best if it returned to its roots:
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Human-first: Make manual coding and exploration simple and visible.
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Community-first: Bring back project sharing, inspiration, and collaboration.
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AI-last: Keep AI as an optional helper, not the center of the platform.
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Money-last: Focus on building tools people love, not just on subscriptions or monetization.
Replit was amazing because of the community and creativity it supported. I hope you consider bringing that spirit back it’s what made Replit truly special.
Hope you read this, Cason
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Fully agree and would really love it - but that seems rather unlikely. 
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Given Replit’s statement of pivoting to embrace non-tech vibe coding, I think this is unlikely.
As a non-tech, I appreciate at least one platform out there that’s focused on democratizing the process for the benefit of us non-techs.
There are a um-teen tech-centered platforms out there.
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I agree, there are plenty of developer centric IDEs out there. Replit is lightyears ahead of competitors to allow users to vibe code (still hate this name) but it takes so much of the work out of how much goes into building full stack that I appreciate their product direction and am in full support of where they’ve been heading since I started using in January/February-ish.
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i think Human code and “Vibe-code” need to coexist and right now it’s like That’s not happening (yet) i think AI should be used for teaching code and debugging not write it from scratch
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We’re moving towards a world where code won’t need to be written by humans at all. Bit of an awkward in-between stage at the moment.
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I don’t think human-written code is going away, If anything I think with the rise of AI human programmers/coders will be needed more then ever.. think about it people thought the same with drag and drop Site creators the amount of coders/programmers grew because of that not shrank
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Code is just a clever way for humans to describe an idea in a way the machine can execute.
But we are hurtling at 100mph to a world where we do that using plain English.
You can look at the code if you like. You can also look at the machine code produced at the next level down - but when did you last do that? For me it was circa 1989 at university.
I produce code daily in Replit. But I last looked at any of it back in December. Honestly no idea what language some of it is, and quite frankly don’t care.
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The concept of 5th generation programming languages has been around long before vibe coding. It’s a polarising debate - people throw around how all languages are deterministic so it’s not the same comparison of not knowing lower level languages.
My humble opinion, knowing engineering is worth much more than knowing syntax. I was never good at memorising syntax. I once had an interview that had a pen and paper syntax test, and I did bad. Yet I was building and maintaining complex systems in my existing job at another firm. It’s just the way my brain works.
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the above!
My goto fun-language before Replit was PHP, and used it since version 2 back in 1997. I’ve probably written a few million lines of code in it, but even as late as last year, I still had the PHP website up to check the syntax.
But back to @realfunnyeric’s comment, I think(?) I agree we’re moving to a world where code will not be written by humans. There simply won’t be any point.
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I’ve commented about this on Linkedin a few times, but keep getting a cold reception - usually from old-school developers cr*pping themselves that their jobs are gone pretty soon.
In summary: the entire game will be run by half a dozen global AI tech companies: anthropic, openai, google, etc. As well as their LLMs, all the infra we would ever need will be sat right next to the models. (maybe OpenAI will buys AWS. or perhaps OpenAI becomes AWS’s only client).
As we request solutions via ChatGPT, the model will directly output executable machine code onto the local infra and run it. If it’s a temporary requirement, it will get torn down after use. Entire apps may only exist for seconds.
A very simplified, back of a napkin version. But you get the idea.
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@Gipity-Steve Fast Software / throw away software.
I’ve already built apps, used once or twice and deleted.
If you create a one-time use Excel sheet, you can create a one-time use app.
Agreed 
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I’ve heard the near future is code on the fly with natural language input. The ultimate personalized “app”.
Basically, your input is a chat box that receives the user’s requests and outputs the response. If the response requires a bit of code or “mini-app,” the interface writes it on the fly.
Imagine all the times you’ve thought, this application is great, but if only it could do [this], it would be so much better (i.e., better meet your expectations).
The next evolution of “vibe” coding is just that, building (or enhancing) the perfect experience for a user on the fly. Every website, platform, and app is dynamic by design and able to enhance it’s own coding per user’s expectations.
Of course, there’s the neural interface (e.g., NeuraLink) that promises, “think it, build it.”
I expect some of this may run into copyright and IP issues, but that hasn’t seemed to have stopped AI companies to date which has taken a “ask for forgiveness rather than permission” approach–just handle it after the fact in court.
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