Replit Blog
Feb 14, 2023Announcing Ghostwriter Chat: The first conversational AI programmer
Today, we are announcing the beta release of Ghostwriter Chat. Now with chat, a proactive debugger, and awareness of your project’s context, Ghostwriter becomes the best AI pair programmer in the world. Building Ghostwriter Last fall, we introduced Ghostwriter, Replit’s coding AI, with Complete, Generate, Transform, and Explain Code - coding assistant tools that work with you as you code. Together they made coding faster by automating repetitive tasks and removing the drudgery of writing boilerplate code. That was just the first step towards our master plan to create a fully autonomous pair programmer – one that feels like working with another teammate.
Feb 10, 2023Altimeter Capital: Supporting builders in AI with Bounties
About Bounties Bounties is a marketplace where anyone can connect with and contract top software creators from the Replit community. These developers are known as Bounty Hunters. The Bounty Hunter community on Replit is global and includes thousands of vetted developers ranging from young prodigy hackers to senior software engineers based in Silicon Valley. About the Bounty Poster
Jan 29, 2023Git in the Shell
Starting today, the Git command-line tools of all Repls provide a much better experience and integrate with your GitHub account. If you connect your GitHub account to Replit from the Account page, your Git commands (like git clone, git fetch, git push) will have access to your GitHub repositories: You're now able compose Git commit messages in the editor:
Jan 27, 2023Replit x India (Part 2)
Introducing the official launch of Replit India - Replit's first international launch! Thank you to the 2M+ developers from India who have signed up for Replit to learn to code, and host & deploy projects. Replit's mission is to bring the next billion coders online, and this is not possible without India. We have launched a plethora of products and initiatives for Indian developers to learn to code, earn Cycles anywhere, anytime and host & deploy their project on Replit 24/7. First some eye-popping stats on India and coding: India is our 2nd largest developer community and fastest growing market ~600K Repls are created every month from India CodeWithHarry from India is the most followed person on Replit
Jan 25, 2023It's Genuary!
You may have thought that we're in the month of January, but we're actually in the month of Genuary! Genuary "is an artificially generated month of time where we build code that makes beautiful things." If you've been a part of the Replit community for a little while, you may remember Replit Creates, our very own month-long celebration of creative coding that happened in August. We don't think making beautiful things should be confined to one month, so we've decided to host a celebration of Genuary on Replit. On the official Genuary website, there are prompts for each day of the month, so we're also celebrating on Replit! Our Replit staff have made it even easier for you to participate by creating templates for some of the prompts, which you can find below.
Jan 23, 2023PostgreSQL Database Preview Now Available On Replit
Databases and web apps go together like peanut butter and jelly. In a word, they're inseparable. And despite all the amazing innovations in NoSQL data stores, often a good old relational database is the most reliable tool for the job. We want to make it completely seamless to develop applications that need databases on Replit. Starting today, you can create and instantly begin to use PostgreSQL databases from within the Replit workspace. Here's how you use it. First, click the PostgreSQL icon in the Tools pane on the lower left hand side of the workspace.
Jan 17, 2023Announcing more power and changes to pricing
Launching more power and upcoming changes to your Hacker benefits and individual powerups Replit has changed a lot since we launched in 2016 — evolving from a simple IDE to a place where you can learn, build, host, and share your software creations with millions around the world. Today, I'm excited to share we're launching new Boost levels that we hope will make your creation experience on Replit a lot more powerful. Replit has always been about software development - raising the ceiling of what you can build and share online instantly. We've added a lot of power and value to Replit over the years and are launching more to help you unlock more value and power on Replit. We believe it's important to adjust our pricing to reflect these changes and ensure that we can continue to provide a first-class experience for those building on our platform. This is not a decision we made lightly.
Jan 3, 2023The Fourth Age Of Programming
The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I.J. Good's intelligence explosion model, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an "explosion" in intelligence and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that qualitatively far surpasses all human intelligence. — Wikipedia In normieland, where I still spend plenty of time both online and IRL, software’s newfound ability to write, draw, and speak like we humans is often taken as evidence that the machines are about to remake our entire society (again) and totally change the nature and value of labor (again). I don’t think the normies are wrong about this, but as flashy as Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT are, old heads know that the Robot Apocalypse has exactly one and only one horseman: computer programs that can write computer programs. Artificially intelligent machines can’t ascend to godhood via the long-prophesied runaway spiral of continuous self-improvement until we invent a machine learning model that can code a better version of itself. We’re not there yet, and it’s not clear how far away such a development is, but as of the mid-2021 release of OpenAI’s Codex model, we’re a lot closer than we were just a few years ago. Given that self-improving computer programs would likely be the most important human invention since writing, there is no other part of the AI content generation revolution that’s worthy of more study and careful scrutiny than generative models that output code. And of all the new ML-powered programming offerings in this growing ecosystem, Replit has the tools I’m watching most closely. No other programming platform is in a position to train models on a dataset that includes the following from legions of programmers and millions of projects: Real-time keystroke and clickstream data
Jan 2, 2023Replit in Review: A Recap of What We Shipped in 2022
As we work on game-changing features for 2023, we wanted to take a look back at the major things we shipped in 2022. Here are some highlights! Shipping SZN 2022 Product (1/19) Teams Pro - The Replit solution for companies and organizations. Private Repls. Team collaboration. Boosted performance. The future of cloud-based development. More to come in 2023.
Dec 21, 2022Custom Themes
Today we're super excited to announce the launch of one of our most requested features to date. For almost as long as Replit has been around, people in the community have been asking for a way to create and share their very own Custom Themes! Well now you can. With Custom Themes, you can truly make Replit yours by styling everything from the app's colors, both in the IDE and across the site, to the syntax highlighting in your code. Create
Dec 1, 2022Creating a Stable Diffusion Startup in 60 Days with Replit Bounties — A Case Study
Introducing the Startup Magic Prints is an e-commerce store where customers can generate AI artwork and add that artwork to accessories that can be shipped anywhere in the U.S. About Bounties Bounties is a marketplace where anyone can work with Replit's top developers to bring software ideas to life.
Nov 24, 2022Announcing Replit Reps Cohort 2
Applications are now open for the Spring 2023 cohort of Replit Reps, which will kick off in February 2023! For those who aren't familiar, Replit Reps are Replit’s community ambassadors. They’re passionate about making programming fun, accessible, and exciting! They enjoy making awesome projects and sharing their skills. They believe that Replit and coding is for everyone, and that anyone should be able to make something great in a judgement-free zone. Plus, they’re excited to work with our team. Being a Replit Rep is an exclusive opportunity to connect with the Replit team, builders who use Replit, and other leaders outside of your own communities. It's super fun to be a Rep, but it also comes with a lot of responsibility - you'll be a role model for your community, as well as for new folks building on Replit. As a Rep, you'll teach and share Replit through events and content creation - we'll support you in growing skills you're interested in, but you can use any format you prefer - livestreaming on your YouTube channel, sharing on social media, publishing your repls to Community, or whatever else floats your boat!
- Nov 16, 2022
Tutorial Jam Winners
The inaugural tutorial jam has come to an end! Our wonderful Replit community shipped some fantastic learning experiences! Contestants were tasked with building a learning Repl using our new .tutorial functionality, including using the new floating video pane, just like we've used on 100 Days of Code! Third Place Third place netted the lucky winner $250 and bragging rights! Intro to JS by MattDESTROYER
Nov 15, 2022Bounties - Bring your ideas to life
Imagine a tool where you describe your problem and get a solution built for you. No, this isn't AI or a new "no code" tool. Today we're introducing Bounties, a marketplace where you get to work with the top creators on Replit and bring your software ideas to life!
Nov 15, 2022How the Deel content team shipped an internal website in 1 week with Replit Bounties — A Case Study
About Bounties Bounties is a marketplace on Replit where anyone can connect with and contract top creators on Replit to complete software development tasks. Many Replit developers specialize in JavaScript, Python, web, and bot development. All payments are processed through Stripe and converted to Cycles so that vetted Bounty Hunters can purchase compute resources on Replit and convert their Cycles to local currency if they are eligible. About the Bounty Poster