Gone are the days of copying and pasting code. All you have to do is explain what you need and the AI assistant will make the changes for you. Now, online IDE (integrated development environment) Replit has released a new “AI assistant” that lets you modify code using natural language prompts.
More importantly, Replit Agent is available to everyone. The agent, released two months ago, helps users build end-to-end software products using only natural language. “(Replit Agent) is the best way to go from idea to app deployment,” Replit CEO Amjadmasad said in a post on X.
Replit Agent can also design visual interfaces using React, allowing you to add design inspiration with just a screenshot or URL.
The newly launched assistant works seamlessly with the Replit AI agent. “If your agent gets you from 0 to 1, your assistant gets you from 1 to 10,” read the announcement.
Here is an overview of the new Replit Assistant. Currently rolling out to all users. pic.twitter.com/C5ibdPS6q6
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There’s more – Replit also announced a new pricing metric called Checkpoints. Leprit said Checkpoint hit a “sweet spot” after considering token and message-based approaches as pricing models.
Replit’s Core subscription includes a $25 monthly credit, or $40 per user for the Teams plan. This includes 100 agent checkpoints and 500 assistant edit requests per month.
After months of waiting, the Replit agent is finally available to everyone. Replit also said its agents and assistants have “direct access to eight years of battle-tested infrastructure,” indicating that they have delegated a foundation that has been running production-ready code for years. said. A checkpoint is a concrete piece of work completed by a Replit agent.
It will be interesting to see how Replit compares to Cursor, GitHub Copilot/Spark, and Vercel’s v0, which is primarily focused on generating high-quality frontend aspects. That said, developers use these tools in conjunction with each other, so it may not be a competition after all.
Late Checkout CEO and popular YouTuber Greg Eisenberg said in a post on X that anyone can now be a founder and act on their ideas before it’s too late.
“Get up, open v0/replit/etc, and start building,” he said.
In addition to Replit, there were two other important updates in the AI coding space this week. You can now run Python code in ChatGPT’s updated Canvas. Available to all users, even those without the Plus version. After a long wait, Cognition AI has made Devin AI available to all users. However, it comes at a whopping price of $500 per month.
While most of these tools and integrations help you write code and work on individual projects, Devin is positioned as a full-stack agent aimed at replacing junior developers. But will it eventually replace these tools as well?
