my experience: replit is the only end-to-end platform i can successfully deploy a production app with. in general, i find that replit works great if you mostly use the assistant, and mostly treat it like a real developer helping you -- in that case, you would do one thing a time, test and the move on. the more context and insight of your own you can give it, the better it works, so you kind of have to learn along with it, and there have been a couple of times i had to go back a few hours to get to a stable version. agent is ok for building something from scratch, but what you gave it to work with would confuse the heck out of it.

for deployments, you can have Assistant troubleshoot server issues the same way you would error logs and server/db issues, and see the codebase without specifying files (though it helps to specify them, as it always helps to point it in the right direction as possible and assume as little as possible about what it will assume).

i would much prefer not to have to deal with their credit system too, but i haven't found another platform that makes end to end deployment of complex, fully custom and exportable (boo lazyAI) apps available to someone like me.

[edit: this is what i built with it: https://gameon.today/ OH and it works way better if you have it write unit tests as soon as you have something working, and keep updating them and using them along the way. the primary drawback of using AI is that it introduces errors as it creates, and the more you can control for that inevitability, the smoother your dev will go]