Comment by calgoo
1 day ago
Well, I'll leave this comment by the company CEO here as i think it wraps up this whole issue in one sentence: "We don’t care about professional coders anymore"
[1] https://www.semafor.com/article/01/15/2025/replit-ceo-on-ai-...
For context, he's describing a pivot from professional developers to "citizen developers", ie. non-devs.
He's not saying there is no need for professional coders, just that they're not the core market for Replit.
(TBH I'm doubtful they ever were)
Because professional developers would spot the errors?
It's actually easier to develop AI coding assistants for pro devs because you can rely on them to fix minor mistakes and guide the tool.
In contrast, non-devs will just accept all, eventually hit a problem and AI won't be able to get them out of it.
(source: was working on such a tool)