Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: 'We don't care about professional coders anymore

The article&#x27;s dramatic hyperbole reminds me of this video [0] with Replit&#x27;s CEO on Y Combinator&#x27;s YT channel a couple of months ago.<p>Title: <i>Now Anyone Can Code: How AI Agents Can Build Your Whole App</i><p>The demo was cartoonishly underwhelming, showcasing little more than project scaffolding generation, followed by ooh-ing and aah-ing over a barely functional app, then 30 minutes of discussion around what may be possible in the future.<p>The hype is strong with this bunch. They are clearly angling for an early exit.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;jbIQfoldLag" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;jbIQfoldLag</a>

They offer a &quot;Team&quot; level package. Why? If they don&#x27;t want professional coders anymore, who is their target audience? I would guess solo-entrepreneurs, so a &quot;team&quot; version doesn&#x27;t really fit, much less the enterprise level.

Are there any command line tools that will help me with the drudgery of diving into an existing Java project using gradle and say something like “please update the dependencies of this package to this version using the existing project conventions in the entire project”? And give a changeset I can start validating and reviewing?<p>Most of my experiments have been IntelliJ plugins. I like what they have to offer but feel like they are quite far away from the unified understanding of the specific very complicated codebase I have to work in.

‘We don’t care about professional coders anymore’<p>This is going to backfire so strongly, all these CEO&#x27;s will be named and shamed for years to come. In the meanwhile....<p>Hospital Manager: ‘We don’t need doctors anymore, we just have patients diagnose each other in the waiting room.’<p>Airline CEO: ‘We’re letting the planes fly themselves now...Pilots are overrated...’<p>Construction Manager: ‘Who needs engineers or architects? Let’s just toss bricks around until we get a building.’