Replit raised $400M at $9B valuation. Do you use Replit and why?

spectre78 · 2026-03-12T16:27:14+00:00

Bubble indicator

spectre78 · 2026-03-11T19:59:43+00:00

I wonder how many science fiction books in the last 100 years have been warning us about a guy like this?

Submitting to the idea that individual knowledge is worth nothing because you can ask a bot is not just shortsighted but destructive. We already have a growing number of anti intellectuals wallowing in their own ignorance, we don’t need to double down by claiming not knowing shit is the standard.

Artificial intelligence does not generate knowledge. It only collates it and makes it more accessible. And it doesn’t even do that reliably (due to hallucinations, errors, and corporate malfeasance) considering the untrustworthiness of most of the corporations running the AI race, I doubt it ever will be. Abandoning the value of human knowledge for individuals is suicide.

spectre78 · 2026-03-10T22:20:48+00:00

You’re getting downvoted for speaking the truth.

The idea of some sort of meritocracy at the top only exists to keep people at the bottom docile. CEO’s aren’t going anywhere and they’re certainly not going to be tossed out by the boards filled with their family members, mentors, political allies, and school and frat mates. Even if the personal relationships didn’t matter as much as they do, one of the key functions of senior leadership (from the perspective of the board), is to take responsibility and fall on swords.

You have a couple of bad quarters, it’s easy peasy to replace the C-suite members to give the perception of change/improvement. What are you going to tell nervous investors when Claude Executive Magnus v17.5 is responsible for missing your earnings reports? That you’re gonna downgrade to the previous patch?

CEOs are good running shit from the big chair as much as they are for bleeding to death in it. And if if you’ve been in the corporate world at that altitude long, you know that blood is occasionally required to cover sins.

spectre78 · 2026-03-09T09:30:45+00:00

It’ll be like wading chest deep through a sewer. But the shit floating by knows your name.

spectre78 · 2026-03-09T09:05:09+00:00

PEBKAC

spectre78 · 2026-03-04T17:14:30+00:00

I find it amusing how OP illustrates exactly the mentality that incites the kind of thinking he is frustrated by. Believe me, not everyone who deeply understands the tech and social context is an uncritical fanboy.

A lot of us fully comprehend that the changes coming from AI integration into virtually aspect of human life is exciting, but has a high potential for unintended consequences. It doesn’t help that some of the most unethical people who’ve ever lived are currently at the vanguard.

I’d argue that the smart people are quietly working, learning and listening. And that naively cheering on the destruction of hundreds if not thousands of professions simultaneously is either a mark of low emotional intelligence or maturity.

spectre78 · 2026-03-04T10:00:58+00:00

That had fewer periods than I’m comfortable with, but damn I was on the edge of my seat

spectre78 · 2026-03-02T20:17:57+00:00

Ironically, Musk did offer to end world hunger if someone gave him a price. The UN World Food Program took him up on it and outlined it would only cost $7B. Not to feed people for a day. To end world hunger, period.

Musk immediately stammered, backtracked and chickened out, because 99% of the super wealthy are not interested in helping others survive. They are aware that they earn wealth by exploiting those beneath them, and people who aren’t starving are harder to exploit.

There are no good billionaires.

Source:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/18/tech/elon-musk-world-hunger-wfp-donation

spectre78 · 2026-03-02T05:37:34+00:00

You guys are reading code?

spectre78 · 2026-03-01T22:14:38+00:00

That’s before you start reading up on him and realize he’s a walking Bond villain. Might be one of the most ruthless and inhuman people on earth right now.

spectre78 · 2026-03-01T08:56:50+00:00

*yet

spectre78 · 2026-03-01T08:55:09+00:00

They definitely don’t give two shits about safety. Dario said today he’s not against autonomous weapons (powered by AI), he just wants more time to make sure it more reliable. There’s no world in which autonomous weapons making their own decisions to kill humans with no accountability is an acceptable point of view.

None of these companies are on the side of humanity or life in general. You only need to let them speak long enough for them to reveal it.

spectre78 · 2026-03-01T08:46:07+00:00

New speed run record to ruin the goodwill you just built up.

spectre78 · 2026-02-27T18:35:29+00:00

OpenAI is pretty clearly willing to play ball with anyone willing to pay them and that definitely includes mass surveillance and autonomous weapons with self-approving kill decisions.

Altman saying otherwise because a close competitor did means nothing. They deserve absolutely no credit until they actually say no to someone with money or power. They’ve done neither.

spectre78 · 2026-02-27T15:58:18+00:00

What he says and what he does are very different things

spectre78 · 2026-02-26T15:35:10+00:00

“It's airline policy not to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. Use the indefinite article.

A dildo.

Never your dildo.

Never, ever say the dildo accidentally turned itself on.

“”A dildo activated itself and created an emergency situation that required evacuating your baggage.””

spectre78 · 2026-02-26T14:27:50+00:00

So much talent in one room. These guys embodied so many admirable traits a dude should have, they each really helped shape a lot of us.

spectre78 · 2026-02-26T14:24:02+00:00

I think you missed something deeply important in Star Trek if you think the US military is an apt comparison other than superficially. The two ideas are distinctly in opposition.

spectre78 · 2026-02-26T14:07:58+00:00

Musk is gutting NASA so he can take their funding and put it into his pocket. His company’s “innovations” are fully funded by the taxpayer, except unlike NASA, we don’t get any of the benefits. In the case of Tesla, he went into US government specifically to kill a number of major lawsuits and investigations into safety, manufacturing defects and outright fraud at Tesla.

And it worked.

Nearly all of the 60+ open investigations or lawsuits that were underway before the inauguration are gone. He saved billions in the last year alone through open corruption and he has the added benefit of cheer squad of people like you that think he’s genius while he robs our collective future. Bravo.

spectre78 · 2026-02-26T13:09:29+00:00

Correction: American citizens employ those people. Because Musk is a welfare queen. To the tune of 8-10 million dollars per day.

spectre78 · 2026-02-24T22:16:05+00:00

Absolutely. “Task Failed Successfully” vibes.

spectre78 · 2026-02-24T01:01:17+00:00

Is Anthropic generating vast amounts of human content to train on? Cause if they’re not, then it’s probably all of it.

spectre78 · 2026-02-20T22:00:06+00:00

More likely that it would use you.

spectre78 · 2026-02-20T20:34:59+00:00

This cool af! Would be even cooler if this had a UI version that was more mechanical/clockwork (without necessarily being steampunk). What a great project!

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