Even though I’m absolutely disappointed with this whole release of Agent 3, I figured I’d try to continue one of my hobby apps I was making with my daughter and it seems like Agent 3 has gotten worse today. I decided to add two new features that were relatively simple and for both I built out a plan in the planning mode. On the first one, it got stuck in the middle of one of the tasks and wouldn’t continue the work and I just had to stop it and try to restart. The next one, it planned 5 tasks and stopped after the second and said everything was done and never implemented the other three tasks. To make it worse, I spent more money on these two small features than it cost me to build an entire Soccer Coach app with Agent 2 two weeks ago.
Also, I find Amjad’s comments on X about Agent 3 spending too much time fixing tech debt created by previous Agents somewhat hilarious. So is he just saying that Agent 1 and Agent 2 were building crap code and Agent 3 has to fix it all and that is why it is taking so long and costing so much money? That doesn’t make be feel better about this disastrous product launch. And to make it worse, he responds to someone’s comment about the cost with “Certainly cheaper than hiring a developer?”
FYI, I started a whole new project after Agent 3 was launched and it doesn’t seem any better working on this new project than when it is working on a project I built with Agent 2, both experiences are awful from a user perspective compared to working with Agent 2.
I have totally lost all my love for Replit, so disappointing. I can’t think of another product launch that lost so much user value.